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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

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
I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Friendship Myself Respect Yourself
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
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
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
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
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way 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
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
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
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
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
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 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
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
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
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality

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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