"I wasn't that great a chef, and..." - Quote by Anthony Bourdain
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
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“Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.”
“If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.”
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. 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.”
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“Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.”
“We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.”
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”
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“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.”
“Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.”
“Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.”