You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. ― Anthony Bourdain

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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. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. ― Anthony Bourdain

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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. ― Anthony Bourdain

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The way you make an omelet reveals your character. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. ― Anthony Bourdain

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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure. ― Anthony Bourdain

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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. ― Anthony Bourdain

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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. ― Anthony Bourdain

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