Taste Quotes - Page 30

• Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

  Peter Singer

  Clothes, People, House

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.121, OUP Oxford

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• That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.

  Anthony Trollope

  Reading, Blessing, Men

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.180, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.

  Jack Zipes

  Religious, Children, Educational

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• I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

  Birdy

  People, Giving, Style

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

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• The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Ignorance, Entertainment

  Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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• My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Character, People, Tragedy

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, World, Safe

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Play, Together, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Program, Narrow-minded

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

  Solange Knowles

  Differences, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

  Bill Nye

  Apples, Next, Harvest

  Source: blogs.kcrw.com

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• If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Everyday, Degrees, Fantasy

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• The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
  [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

  George Herbert

  Bait, Feels, Mice

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• Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

  Scott Weiland

  Pride, Goal, Musician

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• I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.

  Nick Hornby

  Reflection, Bullshit, Personality

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.22, Penguin

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• What do yo think human flesh tastes like?

  Bill Kaulitz

  Thinking, Flesh, Humans

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• The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

  Jill Abramson

  Ideas, Different, Stories

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• I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.

  Simon Armitage

  War, Meditation, Ironic

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• Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter,  patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

  Jody Watley

  Laughter, Prayer, Attitude

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• Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Weather, Rust

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• I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

  Grace Helbig

  Real, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.

  Sister Souljah

  Powerful, Men, Jewels

  Sister Souljah (2010). “Midnight: A Gangster Love Story”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

  John Scalzi

  Government, Cheese, I Can

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• Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.

  Michael Mina

  Balance

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• People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

  Michael Patrick King

  Smart, Dirty, People

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