50+ Anthony Bourdain Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Eat Himself Myself
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
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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Better Eat Hunger Learning Life Live People Possible Travel Yourself
He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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Better Different Himself Home Oneself
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 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
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
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
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Food Goodness Simplicity
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Inspirational One Liner Yourself
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Deep Ideas
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
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
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
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
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
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
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk

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