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• 15 or 20 years ago it would not have been possible for me to come out. Back then, people still had such narrow views, but today many of them are more liberal. Being gay is no longer a taboo in many parts of society. That has affected sports, even boxing.

  Orlando Cruz

  Sports, Gay, Views

  "'I Couldn't Accept Being Gay Because I Was too Afraid'". Interview with Lukas Eberle, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2012.

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• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  Park Chan-wook

  May, Way, Cinema

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• The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.

  Mark Millar

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

  "Kick-Ass 2 Doubles Down on Self-Indulgent Violence. At Least There’s Hit-Girl" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

  Stevie Wonder

  Girl, Brother, Doctors

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• I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Reality, Racism, Citizens

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• ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Careers, Community

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we are always loth to don rational clothing; some fixed belief we must have manufactured for us: we are high or low church, of this or that degree of nonconformity, according to the school in which we are brought up-but the agnostic is always rare of us and of late years the critic has been taboo.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Fashion, School, Science

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• I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

  Thomas Dolby

  People, Desperation, Desperate

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• I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Subjects, Knows

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• Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

  Boy George

  Laughing, Records, Kind

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

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• There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Reading, Years

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

  Stephen Bayley

  Sex, Attitude, Simple

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Social Taboos, Shy, Morality

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• I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Generations, Actors, Tvs

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• Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

  Bob Dylan

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Can't wait to show my girls he sucked the piss out of my pussy.

  Lil' Kim

  Girl, Social Taboos, Waiting

  Song: "Suck My Dick" By Lil Kim

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• There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

  Bob Dylan

  Boys, Social Taboos, New Orleans

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• Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

  Bob Dylan

  Father, Social Taboos, Gold

  Song: Seven Curses

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• Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass until he can't come anymore.

  Frank Zappa

  Social Taboos, Giving, Sauce

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• Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

  Elton John

  Games, Names, Social Taboos

  Song: Sweet Painted Lady Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973

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• Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

  Mojo Nixon

  Dad, Pigs, Social Taboos

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• Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, Moving, Future

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• 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.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Issues, People, Looks

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• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Selfish, Caring, Social Taboos

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• Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!

  Susan Sarandon

  Real, Loneliness, Mean

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