A Quote by Patricia Hampl

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Patricia Hampl

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Patricia Hampl
American - Author
Born: March 12, 1946

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

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

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

Helen McCloy

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

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

Diane von Furstenberg

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

Erica Jong

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

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

Dogen

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

For me, I've always loved style, because I've always loved dressing different and being unique and maybe wearing stuff no one else would wear, and I feel like that really carries over into my same taste in interior design.

Brandi Cyrus

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

Anthony Doerr

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

Susan Sontag

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

Fritz Machlup

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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