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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

Anthony Bourdain

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
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Inspirational One Liner Rise
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
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
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
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Eat Kill Myself Sports
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Eat Himself Myself
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Body Fun Yourself
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
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
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
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
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
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Change Leave Life Small Travel World 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.
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Deserve Food Yourself
Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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Lie Mistake Yourself
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
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
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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One Liner Sin
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
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
Luck is not a business model.
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Business Luck One Liner
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
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

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