“If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.”
“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.”
“Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.”
“Your most closely held beliefs should always be subject to intense and repeated questioning.”
“Assume the worst. About everybody. But don’t let it stop you.”
“We ask simply that you respect our existence.”
“Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.”
“I learned long ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.”
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“The journey is part of the experience—an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent.”
“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
“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.”
“I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you should say yes to people.”
“I believe in living life the way that you want to.”
“I can do nothing else. I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
“I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.”
Anthony Bourdain Quotes :
“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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“You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.”
“I wanted kicks—the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood.”
“I’m a big believer that you should say yes to people.”
“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”
“I don’t have any delusions. I don’t think I’m an auteur.”
“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
“You’re never going to get a regular job again, because people will be constantly analyzing your every move.”
“I believe in what I do, but I’m not a hard man to track down; I’m really not.”
“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.”
“I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
“Work on developing the ability to point out contradictions in people’s arguments.”
“Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
“There is no final resting place of the mind.”
“The journey is part of the experience.”
“Luck is not a business model.”
“Good food and good eating are about risk.”
“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can.”
“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
“I love New York. In New York, the whole world comes to you.”
“Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on.”
“I’m happiest experiencing life, without a filter between me and the world.”