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“Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

Ifs Needs Should Book America Given Chance Mystery Taste Succeed Should Have Sells Ashamed Trash

Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

“There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.”

Firsts Country America Games Waiting Sun Taste Basketball Baseball Bigger Dust Grass Sweat Lightning Pitcher Leather Spit Refined Pastures

Book:Rabbit Redux

Source: Rabbit Redux

“Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.”

America Taste Academic Superiority Marxist Snob Elitist

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.”

Looks America Quality Taste Musician Mainstream Good Taste General Public

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.”

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.”

Doe Sometimes America Periods Taste Tolerance Intolerance Persecution Euphemism

Author:Robert Hughes

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Reason Dream Reality America Events Internet Periods Taste Weakness Satire Intolerance Free Speech Euphemism Conjunctions Wildest Dreams

Author:Robert Hughes

“If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!”

“I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.”

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Author:Johnny Weir