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

-- Dave Hickey

#Real Quotes #Taste Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.”

Source : "Heaven and Earth". Book by Ian Plimer, 2009.
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.”
“You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. Itâ€™s a positive-and-negative thing: you canâ€™t have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find itâ€¦”

Source : Brian Sibley (2006). “Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey”, HarperCollins UK
“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”
“The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.”
“Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.”

Source : "In Eutropium". I, 181. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 93-96, 1922.

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