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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

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
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Dream Reward Understand
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Myself Try
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
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
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
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

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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