Perhaps wisdom. . . is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. - Anthony Bourdain
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. - Anthony Bourdain
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon. - Anthony Bourdain
The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you. - Anthony Bourdain
To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing. - Anthony Bourdain
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. - Sylvester Stallone
What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? And will there be some left for me? - Anthony Bourdain
Everything comes through us from us. Everything in this world that happens to us comes from here, not out here. - Earl Shoaff
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
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