Quotes 61 till 80 of 149.
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004 -
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.
Countdown interview, Mascot Airport, Sydney, April 1976. -
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them.
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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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