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

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Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

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If you’re taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything. ― Kanye West

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Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism

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I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy. ― Anthony Bourdain

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I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.

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In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

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