- Averse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distaste Quotes
Sharp words on what people would rather avoid.
This collection of distaste quotes covers everything from an Anglo-Saxon suspicion of highbrow culture to a legal profession's discomfort with former inmates. The tone stays observational rather than bitter.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't only law. Medical schools often have committees to evaluate cases and mitigating factors but are generally reluctant to admit ex-inmates.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
- Outfit
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- Nov 07, 2020