Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAINThere is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
More Anthony Bourdain Quotes
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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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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Selling out is getting a job.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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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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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Luck is not a business model.
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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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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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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
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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.
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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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