#taste

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#fickle #music #musical #people #tastes

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#editors #formed #i #ideals #my own

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#i #know #moral #neck #never

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#taste #thousand

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good. ↗

— Martin Yan

#anything #everything #foundation #good #like

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#been #beyond #boundaries #his #i

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. ↗

— Vera Wang

#bridal #changing #could #dress #either

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#guess #i #music #older #real

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#backgrounds #characters #complete #concern #core