I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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I have so much of you in my heart.

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I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. ― Mindy Kaling

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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

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

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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