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Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into. -- Peter Jackson
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. -- Charles Bukowski
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. -- Jean Genet
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. -- Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. -- Mel Brooks
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. -- Charles Baudelaire
I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth. -- Monica Lewinsky
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. -- D. H. Lawrence
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. -- Mel Brooks
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. -- Russell Lynes
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. -- Colin Mochrie
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. -- Joe Orton
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife. -- Halle Berry
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T. -- Marcel Duchamp
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person. -- John Cleese
Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics. -- Jeff Ross
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
People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it. -- Michael Patrick King
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. -- Johnny Depp
There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now. -- Clint Walker
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste. -- Robert Mankoff
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story. -- John Hench
It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste. -- Jim Brown
My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. -- Vincent Gallo
In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out. -- Andre Leon Talley
For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing. -- Fred Durst
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair. -- China Mieville
Good taste is always bad. --
Drinking is bad taste but tastes good. -- Franklin P. Adams
Bad taste makes the day go by faster. -- Andy Warhol
Bad taste is a species of bad morals. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I think bad taste should be a felony. -- Margo Kaufman
Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless. -- Beau Brummell
Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone. -- Sarah Sutton
Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public -- H. L. Mencken
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. -- E. M. Forster
To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. -- John Waters
Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?" -- Colleen Houck
Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy? -- Colleen Houck
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. -- Dorothy Parker
An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing. -- Charles Bukowski
I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste. -- Graham Norton
Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again. -- Boman Irani
In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste. -- Helmut Newton
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy. -- Aristophanes
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life -- Oscar Wilde
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time. -- Steven Bochco
This is going to leave a bad taste in a lot of people's eyes. -- Louise Day Hicks
Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad. -- Brad Moore
We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against. -- Diana Vreeland
I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. -- Margaret Cho
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. -- Arnold Bennett
Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good. -- Wolfgang Puck
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. -- Slavoj Zizek
It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly. -- David Eddings
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. -- Slavoj Zizek
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. -- Agnes Repplier
No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run. -- F. Paul Wilson
There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others. -- Billy Carter
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. -- John Kennedy Toole
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards. -- Michael Ian Black
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege. -- Dave Hickey
Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night. -- Tom Robbins
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. -- Roger Ebert
I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it. -- Robert R. McCammon
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. -- Don DeLillo
The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for. -- Emily Post
You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. -- Michael Scott
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. -- Jerry Saltz
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
There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste! -- Mel Brooks
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. -- Manuel Puig
It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films. -- Mel Brooks
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
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways. -- John Irving
Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth. -- Jim Les
But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were. -- Charlaine Harris
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. -- A. R. Ammons
You taste so good. I could kiss you forever. (Adron) You're not so bad yourself in a lethal, I'll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-wrong kind of way. (Livia) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know. -- Tom Baker
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments. -- A. J. Liebling
Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. -- Leonid Andreyev
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. -- Lester Beall
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. -- Vincent Canby
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. -- Robert Moses
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
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
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
[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it ... -- Penelope Gilliatt
Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely. -- Terence Tao
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. -- Manuel Puig
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things, -- Helmut Newton
Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on. -- Margaret Cho
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
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
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
When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else, -- Anthony Bourdain
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
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions. -- James A. Baldwin
For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad strategy-and I will not tolerate it as president. -- Barack Obama
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany. -- Jesse Owens
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste -- Sydney, Lady Morgan
You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it! -- Carrie Donovan

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