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Without new ideas, success can become stale.

Anthony Bourdain

And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Food People
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Dream Reward Understand
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
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character Skill Yourself
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Ambition Leave Reason
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
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Career Goodness Rare
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Learning Sex Skill Yourself
Luck is not a business model.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Business Luck One Liner
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Beautiful Myself Night
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Doctor
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
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Feeling Myself

Without new ideas, success can become stale.

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