One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

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"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. The journey changes you; it should change you."

- Anthony Bourdain

Transformation

"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."

- Anthony Bourdain

Self-awareness

"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."

- Anthony Bourdain

Self-awareness

"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."

- Anthony Bourdain

Happiness

"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

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- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

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