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Reality is an acquired taste. -- Robert Fritz
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. -- Saul Williams
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. -- Tori Amos
Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste. -- Shawn Amos
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. -- Marc Maron
Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste. -- Mark Van Doren
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. -- Patricia Hampl
The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes. -- Gilbert Adair
The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste. -- Emily Dickinson
... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure. -- Margaret Kennedy
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed. -- Helen McCloy
Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction. -- Helen McCloy
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. -- Erica Jong
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. -- Abigail Padgett
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful. -- Manohla Dargis
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it. -- Daniel Handler
Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. -- Patricia Hampl
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste. -- Henry Clay Trumbull
Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything -- Marvin Shanken
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately. -- Jonathan Demme
For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me. -- David Costabile
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. -- Eli Broad
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste. -- Joe Perry
At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste. -- Margaret Geller
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it. -- Michael Morpurgo
Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste. -- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar]. -- Carrie Fisher
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. -- Cyril Connolly
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it -- Donald Dowes
Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. -- Delphine de Girardin
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. -- Delphine de Girardin
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. -- Yves Klein
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one. -- Charles Lamb
You smoke? (Randy) Only when I'm on fire. (Steele) I don't appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I'm an acquired taste. (Steele) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Ð?ur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else. -- Stephen Malkmus
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it. -- Daniel Handler

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