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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?

Anthony Bourdain

There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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Alone Fake Wonderful
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.
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Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Dream Reward Understand
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Eat Himself Myself
Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbone, and Pernod.
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Food Ourselves Space Time
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Myself Try
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Experiment New Repeat Try
I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Crime Dangerous Myself
He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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Better Different Himself Home Oneself
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Food Myself Please Power
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
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Food Life Live Myself Worth
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality

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