This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
ANTHONY BOURDAINIf 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.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Selling out is getting a job.
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Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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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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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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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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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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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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