Tacky Quotes

• Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

  Thom Filicia

  Dull, Boring, Tragic

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

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• Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes You Wear, Lasts

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• I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

  Bette Midler

  Women, Memorable, Popularity

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• Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

  Paula Deen

  Talking, Talking About Money

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• It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Thinking, Cities, Reputation

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• Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

  Pete Seeger

  Cities, Looks, Littles

  Song: Little Boxes

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• I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

  Jordana Brewster

  Fashion, School, White

  "Jordana Brewster Talks Swimsuits, Reveals Leatherface's Human Side". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2006.

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• And there's doctors and lawyers,
  And business executives,
  And they're all made out of ticky tacky
  And they all look just the same.

  Malvina Reynolds

  Doctors, Looks, Lawyer

  Song: Little Boxes, Album: Sings the Truth

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• Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

  Malvina Reynolds

  Littles, Made, Boxes

  "Little Boxes" (song) (1962)

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• I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hate, Integrity, Mean

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• I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

  Bette Midler

  Ease, Lasts, Trash

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• Sexual underwear is tacky.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Underwear

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• But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

  Truman Capote

  Cat, Giving, Tiffany's

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.33, Vintage

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• Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

  Paul Neilan

  Lying, People, Fine

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• I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Issues, Weirdness

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• I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Voice, Fascination, Denver

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

  Pat Conroy

  Yankees, Up North, Needs

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.532, Open Road Media

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• You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sex, Unicorn, Ironclads

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• Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

  Holly Golightly

  Thinking, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Diamond

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• There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

  Big Sean

  Unique, Lines, Kind

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

  Dean Acheson

  Bird, Toady

  Limerick written during dull meeting of Foreign Ministers. Quoted in Walter Isaac son and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

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• Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

  Andrew Evans

  Retirement, Class, Republic

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• It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.

  Jim Goad

  Bullying, Hate, People

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Silly, Hair, Knowing

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