Taboo Quotes - Page 6

• Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

  Boy George

  Stars, Doors, Names

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

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• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  Boy George

  Stars, Years, Crowds

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

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• The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

  Boy George

  Night, Care, Crowds

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.

  Kathy Change

  Order, Fearless, Social

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• Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.

  Earl A Grollman

  Suicide, Family And Friends, Sound

  Earl A. Grollman (1988). “Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention”, p.1, Beacon Press

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• We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Women, Fall

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• The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Attitude, Obstacles

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own minority. And that's a nice service that many of them provide.

  Emo Philips

  Fun, Nice, Race

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• 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

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• 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

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• The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas that had already been used. I remember the first time I spotted Leigh Bowery and Trojan parading around in clubs: They were in their "Pakis from Outer Space" look, and the makeup was quite similar to one of my old looks, because I was quite fond of wearing blue, green, or yellow foundation, and so I was pretty dismissive of them at first.

  Boy George

  Makeup, Ideas, Yellow

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

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• Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Jobs, Kissing, Blow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Fashion, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We should fulfill the Minsk Protocol. The main reason for the sanctions is that Russia broke a taboo: It triggered a war in Europe. Crimea is a problem, but the most painful part of the sanctions is tied to the war in the Donbas. As soon as Russia takes real steps to prevent shots from being fired there, this part of the sanctions will be lifted.

  Alexei Navalny

  Real, War, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Sex, Believe

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3922, Delphi Classics

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• Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, People, Religion

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.353, Oxford University Press

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• Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Totems, Lost

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• 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

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• I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.

  Boy George

  New York, Night, Thinking

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

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• It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice, Guilt, Calling

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• Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

  Amy Schumer

  Children, Cancer, Writing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

  John Naisbitt

  Sex, Government, Gone

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