Acquired Taste Quotes

• A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Money, Car, Railroads

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Inspirational Life, Simplicity, Taste

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

  Mark Van Doren

  Truth, Honesty, Taste

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• An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

  Abigail Padgett

  Appreciation, Scotch, Taste

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• I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

  Tori Amos

  Want, Littles, Taste

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• Reality is an acquired taste.

  Robert Fritz

  Reality, Taste

  Robert Fritz (1996). “Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure”, p.28, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

  Patricia Hampl

  Taste, Oneself

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• I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Taste, Inspired

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• The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

  Gilbert Adair

  Taste

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• A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Reading, Learning

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• I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Taste, Driving, Blizzard

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• Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

  Helen McCloy

  Money, Addiction, Taste

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• To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Water, Lovers

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Worry, My Best Friend

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize the Night”, p.85, Macmillan

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• Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

  Shawn Amos

  People, Hollywood, Taste

  "Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a ‘70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, Taste, Appetite

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

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• money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

  Helen McCloy

  Money, Taste, Feds

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• It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

  Daniel Handler

  Happiness, Despair, Encounters

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• Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

  Walter Kaufmann

  Doe, World, Want

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• Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

  Erica Jong

  Eye, Evil, Joy

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• Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

  Marvin Shanken

  Strong, Scotch, Cuban Cigars

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• ... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Men, Taste, Leisure

  Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.75, Random House

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• Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Memorable, Men, Water

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

  Jonathan Demme

  Hitting, Taste, Remember

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• Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

  Patricia Hampl

  Book, Writing, Taste

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