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Reality is an acquired taste.
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
While soy milk is an acquired taste, I prefer almond, cashew and coconut milk.
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
One of my favorite Japanese foods is called natto. It's fermented soybeans. I grew up in Japan eating natto. It's definitely an acquired taste. It's basically smelly.
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.
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.
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.
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.