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.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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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.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
Vera Wang
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
Irina Shayk
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
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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.
J. C. Chandor
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I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
Edvard Grieg
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
Courtney Love
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
Boris Karloff
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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Vivienne Westwood
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
John Stuart Mill
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
James Anthony Froude
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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.
Craig Davidson
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I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.
Lee Iacocca
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
Carrie Fisher