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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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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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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How many seconds separate Jake or any of us from those burdens of fate? Three? Five? At some point in our lives, the cut may have been that fine. Who can say, and perhaps it is not worth pondering. But we do, don't we? We gnaw on that bone of possibility until our teeth are dull and our skulls throb. There are other life-lines than the one we landed on, and we can taste it.
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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.
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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
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Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.
