"It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment."
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"Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless."
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"When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex."
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"To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be."
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"In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them."
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"You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good."
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"The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore."
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"Men of different tastes have different pursuits."
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"If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him."
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"... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure."
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"It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive."
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"Taste is so much more important than fashion."
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"Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes."
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"Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned."
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"I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes."
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"At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions."
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"The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on."
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"Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite."
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"Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments."
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"Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste."
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