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“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.”

“Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.”

Imagination Taste Entertainment Rejecting

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

“It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.”

May Humor Wish Half Taste Entertainment Gift From God Feeler

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume

“The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.”

Art Can Do Dangerous Ignorance Taste Art Is Entertainment Immoral Dangerous Things Disgraceful

Book:Memoirs of Hecate County

Source: Memoirs of Hecate County

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

Ifs America Taste Majority Entertainment Trash Indication Expenditures

Author:Marlon Brando

“It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture, it's a town of entertainment.”

Culture Interesting Taste Towns Entertainment Los Angeles Hierarchy Vegas Las Vegas Days Off

Author:James Turrell

“I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.”

Firsts Stills Moments Artist Taste Okay Entertainment Drawing Nervous Comic Visuals Frightened Iconic

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.”

Today Social Class Taste Members Criticism Entertainment Consumers Goods Considering Fast Food Upper Class Lower Class Plentiful

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature