Quotes About Preferences

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant."well...yes, but I'd never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on for me.

The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Although you should not let your emotional responses dictate your allocation, you do need to sleep at night, and your personal preferences are an important part of your asset class structure.