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

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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. ― 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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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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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. ― 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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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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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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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. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. ― 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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