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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.

Anthony Bourdain

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
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
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
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
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
People confuse me. Food doesn’t.
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Food Myself One Liner People
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Deep Ideas
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
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
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
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex 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.
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Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel 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 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
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
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
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
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
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
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

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