Words matter. These are the best Taboo Quotes from famous people such as Sherlyn Chopra, Stromae, Henry Moore, Manal al-Sharif, Michael Musto, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Unconventionality is no longer a taboo. It is being applauded and celebrated by both the classes and the masses.
Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can’t talk about everything easily.
I believe that nothing should be taboo – no theory or prejudice should close one’s mind to a discovery.
When women break that taboo and they’re not afraid to drive that car by herself – that’s it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
It’s a good thing that columnists don’t make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
I can’t think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it’s one I simply don’t know anything about.
The primary goal is to entertain people because… Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it’s a great mix of content and entertainment.
Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know… and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.
I’m glad I’ve established this as my zone: ‘the taboo breaker.’
You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what’s in there.
Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there’s been a double standard between men and women. I think it’s time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.
Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
‘Vicky Donor’ dealt with a taboo topic, but it was a family entertainer and not cringe-worthy, which helped make it a commercial success.
Wanting money has been made so taboo. We’re not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.
Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is neither dirty, nor a taboo.
I’m not uncomfortable around guns – I’ve hunted for most of my life – but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.
Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.
Don’t have rules, taboos, or limits.
International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
I remember being a kid and seeing the ‘National Inquirer’ at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it’s perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There’s absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.
We’re doing a lot of work in schools getting girls to play football, breaking down any taboos there might be, and we’re seeing them get interested and bring their families along, where they have such a good match day experience that they’re coming back.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.
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.
Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.
I can understand why some people might look at me and say, ‘What’s she got to be depressed about?’ I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
I don’t know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.
People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.
When Bound was released, Boys don’t Cry wasn’t out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.
My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up in America. Race was a taboo topic.
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.
Terrorism, as a whole, is – I don’t want to say ‘taboo,’ but it is a very emotional subject.
Expect the unexpected, is what I’d say about ‘Taboo.’
When Bound was released, Boys don’t Cry wasn’t out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.
It’s true that my father was imprisoned for three and a half years, and it was because he stood up for what he believed in. It’s not a taboo subject in our household. We talk about it. After all, I want to know what happened.
Breast implants in pageants is not a rarity. It’s definitely not taboo. It’s very common.
I think it’s a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn’t happen a lot.
Partly what I’m writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it’s also to feel, quite powerfully, that you’re not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief – that to do so would be taboo somehow.
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple – sensitively – with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
Women have this arsenal of stuff where if they have a pimple or they have something, you guys can cover that up. Guys don’t really have that – and it’s also a little bit taboo.
We can’t treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.
I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.
Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.
It’s been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it’s acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren’t rational.
I’ve never been critically acclaimed. I’ve never been nominated for no Grammy. I’ve never been on no magazine cover. It’s almost taboo to say I’m actually good.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. ‘How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?’ Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
