Noah Baumbach Quotes
Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
Quotes to Explore
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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I don't have lavish 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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
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I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Ignorant people will believe anything if they’re scared enough.
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Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.
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The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.
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Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
