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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.

Anthony Bourdain

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Dream Reward Understand
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Character 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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Experiment New Repeat Try
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Food Myself Please Power
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Ambition Leave Reason
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
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Mind One Liner Place Rest
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Feeling Myself
Good food and good eating are about risk.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Body Fun Yourself
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Afraid Angry History People Teaching
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kill One Liner Writing
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

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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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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