Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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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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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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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 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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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.
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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
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Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
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I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.
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Happy is he who causes a scandal.
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What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
