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Anthony Bourdain Quotes on Travel, Food and Life

Seema Nehete Mar 3, 2024
Anthony Bourdain was a passionate traveler and a well-known American Chef. Here is a collection of his quotes that will inspire you to travel more, eat better, and live happily.

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“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
“It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.”
“Nothing unexpected or wonderful is likely to happen if you have an itinerary in Paris filled with the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.”
“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
“People confuse me. Food doesn't.”
“I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.”
“You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.”

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“You take something with you. Hopefully you leave something good behind”
"One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing."
"Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have."

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“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.”
"I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence."