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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

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
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
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
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
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
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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Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
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
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Ourselves Space Time
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

Better Eat Hunger Learning Life Live People Possible Travel Yourself
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Body Fun Yourself
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason

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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