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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. ↗

— Dan Glickman

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#cultivated #habit #happy #kind #kind word

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ↗