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• Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

  Dave Hickey

  Real, Taste, Privilege

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• On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

  Richey Edwards

  Party, Believe, Mean

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• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  Tab Hunter

  Hate, Heart, People

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• You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

  Michael Scott

  Gay, People, Acting

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• We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.

  Errol Morris

  Might, Taste, Imagine

  Source: collider.com

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• A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, People, Police

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• Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

  H. L. Mencken

  Taste, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

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• Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

  Margaret Cho

  Law, Taste, Modesty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

  Denis Dutton

  Self, May, Kitsch

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• What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Issues, Trying, Want

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.

  Bridget Everett

  Thinking, Down And, Taste

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Drinking, Taste

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• I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

  Lenny Bruce

  People, Taste, Restaurants

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• As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Unique, Land, Style

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• I think bad taste should be a felony.

  Margo Kaufman

  Thinking, Hatred, Taste

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• If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Pride, Artist, Color

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

  Margaret Cho

  Taste, Notion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

  Susan Sontag

  Witty, Exercise, Men

  "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

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• But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

  Mel Brooks

  Taste

  "'I do bad taste with intelligence'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.

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• It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Atheist, Taste

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.

  Jim Les

  Revenge, Games, Mouths

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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

  George Eliot

  Dirty, Gossip, Rumor

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13

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• Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Garden, Museums, Dancing

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