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  • To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

    "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.
  • A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

    Piano   People   Sound  
  • It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

    Issues   Would Be   Taste  
    "Mel Brooks Remembers the Funniest Movie He Ever Made". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2014.
  • Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

    Art   Kitsch   Taste  
    Don DeLillo (2012). “Running Dog”, p.148, Vintage
  • 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.

    Dirty   Gossip   Rumor  
    'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 2, ch. 13
  • I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

    Men   Wife   Needs  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Hate   Heart   People  
  • It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

    Husband   Wife   Taste  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Men   People   Police  
  • Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

    Failure   Taste   Excuse  
    Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Party   Believe   Mean  
  • 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.

  • Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

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

    Revenge   Games   Mouths  
  • In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

  • We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

    Fashion   Needs   Taste  
    Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”
  • 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.

    Smart   Dirty   People  
  • The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

    Quality   Taste   Faults  
    Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.557, Cosimo, Inc.
  • A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

    Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”
  • I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.
  • Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

    Age   Genius   Might  
  • Genius creates, and taste preserves.

  • 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 (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing
  • You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

    Gay   People   Acting  
  • It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

    Personality   Doe   Ugly  
    David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.243, Random House
  • 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.

    Witty   Exercise   Men  
    "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.
  • For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

    "Obama Announces Executive Pay Caps". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.
  • In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

    pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”
  • 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.

    Jobs   Thinking   Artist  
    Source: bob.bigw.org
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