"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

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"Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument."

Kristin Hersh, American Musician

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

Tori Amos, American Musician

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"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."

Russell Lynes, American Critic

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"Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone."

Sarah Sutton, British Actress

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"I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men."

Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer

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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Edith Sitwell, British Poet

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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, American Entertainer

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"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."

James Beard, American Author

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"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."

Kathy Mattea, American Musician

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"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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"Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument."

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

"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."

"Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone."

"I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men."

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

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

"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."

"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense."

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"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."

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