#appetite

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

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The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#bbc #better #black #black and white #had

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger. ↗

— Clive Owen

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. ↗

— Quintilian

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film. ↗

— Alain Resnais

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