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.
ANTHONY BOURDAINNo one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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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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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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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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It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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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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Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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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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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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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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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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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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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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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.
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