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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 Bourdain

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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Change Leave Life Small Travel World 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
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character Skill Yourself
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
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Better Different Himself Home Oneself
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Doctor
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Goodness Simplicity
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
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kill One Liner Writing
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
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
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
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Kill Myself Sports

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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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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