Taboo Quotes - Page 6

• There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

  Bob Seger

  Social Taboos, Long, Dancer

  Song: Mainstreet, Album: Night Moves, 1976

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Mother, Father, Talking

  6 Copy quote

• We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.

  Biz Markie

  Hands, Social Taboos, Boogers

  20 Copy quote

• The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

  Boy George

  Dressing Up, Dancing, Hip Hop

  "Taboo". Interview With Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

  Tippi Hedren

  People, Childhood, Psychology

  "The blonde queen of King Alfred (II)". Interview with Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 1999.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think it's okay for them to explore their sexuality, as long as they own it and it's portrayed in the right way.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Thinking, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

  Ang Lee

  Stars, Careers, Risk

  4 Copy quote

• The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

  Michael Malone

  Faith, Failure, Thinking

  The Guardian (London), July 7, 1989.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Past, Three, Done

  4 Copy quote

• Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

  Richard Serra

  Guy, Disease, Sexuality

  7 Copy quote

• The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.

  Dean Cain

  Mother, Gay, Different

  4 Copy quote

• In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

  Cesare Prandelli

  Sports, Football, Desire

  5 Copy quote

• The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

  Wess Stafford

  Running, Children, Sacrifice

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.2, WaterBrook

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing. This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that "bravely" trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.

  Ross Douthat

  Self, Political, Islam

  9 Copy quote

• We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go into a 7-11 and check out the Playmate of the Month, but you don't want your kids to know about death. You don't want your kids to know about disfigurement. You don't want 'em to know about creepy things because it might warp their little minds.

  Stephen King

  Children, Kids, Creepy

  4 Copy quote

• Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.

  Stacy Barthe

  Suicide, Believe, Talking

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?

  Xiaolu Guo

  Artist, Today, Censorship

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

  Andrew Lang

  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

  4 Copy quote

• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

  5 Copy quote

• Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

  John Carpenter

  Dream, Children, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.

  Margaret Visser

  Tables, Weapons, Violence

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.10, Open Road Media

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Interesting, Silence, Topics

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.3, Grove Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source