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Anthony Bourdain

I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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Crime Divine Food Respect Taste
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

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

Deep Ideas
Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Lie Mistake Yourself
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
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
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 learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Body Fun Yourself
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character Skill Yourself
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
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Better Eat Hunger Learning Life Live People Possible Travel Yourself
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Deserve Food Yourself
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Alone Fake Wonderful
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Myself Try
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kill One Liner Writing
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Life Live Myself Worth
And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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Eat Food People
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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Feeling Myself
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
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
The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason

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