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• Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost the way that God chooses for us to be here on earth, to enjoy this energy of love in the physical plane.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Sex, Thinking

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• Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see what's actually there. Their perceptions are less clouded by belief systems, taboos, habits of thought. One responsibility of management--an important one--is to call attention to the invisible obvious, pointing it out as a child does (sometimes to the embarrassment of adults). Doing so also requires supporting employees who take that risk, too, and other risks as well.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Responsibility, Risk

  Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes (2003). “Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos not to be talked about, to be avoided. They are deeply connected. Sex represents life because all life arises out of sex, and death represents the end. And both have been taboo - don't talk about sex and don't talk about death.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Sex, Two

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• It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.

  Natalie MacLean

  Wine, Buzz, Likes

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• A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.

  Boy George

  Summer, Gay, Clubs

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

  Kate Millett

  Privacy

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It's really important to have a healthy sexuality and to be open about it. It's not a taboo. It's normal.

  Eva Longoria

  Healthy, Important, Normal

  "All About Eva". Interview with Jennifer Graham, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 25, 2005.

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• Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

  Robert Byron

  People, Reason, Modern

  Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.6, MarcoPolo

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• Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.

  Eric Fischl

  Sarcastic, Art, Couple

  "Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas". Book by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

  Aldrich Ames

  Betrayal, Heavy, Carrie

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• Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Female, Body

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• When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

  Todd Solondz

  Happiness, Laughter, People

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• It's taboo for me to date wrestlers.

  Stephanie

  Wrestler

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• Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Sex, Reason

  "Afterthoughts".

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• Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo
  subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and
  speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.

  Sheikh Abdullah

  Coffee, Writing, Today

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• We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

  Eric Drooker

  War, Men, Cop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

  Additi Gupta

  Journey, Voice, Inspire

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• Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

  Havelock Ellis

  People, Politics, Action

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.193, Elsevier

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• There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

  Steven T. Katz

  Ugly Things, People, Broken

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• But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

  Ethan Suplee

  Friends, People, Drug

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references).

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Writing, Two, Three

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• I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Past, Roles, Crosses

  "Neil Patrick Harris Interview, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas". Roundtable interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

  Ray Stevens

  Shoes, Social Taboos, Tennis

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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• There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

  Frank Langella

  Bed

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