Bad Taste Quotes - Page 5

• It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Past, Tragedy

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

  Mel Brooks

  Long, Mind, Taste

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• You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

  John Irving

  Country, Play, Names

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Running, Office, Taste

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• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Special, Literature

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• I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

  Helmut Newton

  Way, Taste, Exciting

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• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Piano, People, Sound

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• When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Liking Someone, Taste, Aggressive

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Fate, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

  Barack Obama

  Awards, Greed, President

  "Obama Announces Executive Pay Caps". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

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• Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

  Colin Mochrie

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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

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• Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

  Andy Warhol

  Taste, Faster

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• If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

  Steven Bochco

  Prison Time, Done, Taste

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• The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

  Tom Baker

  Dinner, Taste, Knows

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• The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

  Vincent Canby

  Shopping, Cheerful, Taste

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• In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

  Roger Scruton

  Thinking, Differences, Judging

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• I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

  China Mieville

  Sorry, Kids, Sidekicks

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• When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.

  Jesse Owens

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  "The Jesse Owens Story". Book by Jesse Owens, 1970.

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• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  Halle Berry

  Men, Wife, Needs

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

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• It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taste, Formidable, Englishmen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.115

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Night, Insecurity

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• One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

  Diana Vreeland

  Appreciation, Nice, Thinking

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