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• The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

  Charlie Brooker

  Teenage, Party, House

  Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2010.

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• Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

  Thomas Sowell

  News Stories, Self, Views

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• The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, War, Men

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• Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

  Georges Bataille

  Sex, Animal, Men

  Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo”, Arno Press

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• When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.

  Nicholson Baker

  Self, Personality, Rude

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.153, Vintage

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• Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Religion, Atmosphere, Magic

  Malinowski, Bronislaw (2014). “Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.

  Cheryl James

  Children, Stupid, Spouse

  Source: broadly.vice.com

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• Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Crazy, Generosity, Support

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if someone says, "Don't say that," it's all I want to say. And also, something I learned in therapy ... which is darkness can't exist in the light, and then that made me think of something that Mr. Rogers said, which is, "If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to sit down and go over whatever the questions or conflicts are and come to a resolution.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Needs, Culture, Down And

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• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  Paul Watson

  Fishing, Would Be, Chance

  "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible responses, so fingers crossed.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Different, Unexpected

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mom, Children, Prejudice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

  Steven Knight

  Episodes, Direct

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• We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Children, Party, Expression

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film project that I've got, which is called Locke, and I need Tom to play the lead." And we spoke about both in that meeting and in the end the deal was that I would do Taboo if he did Locke and vice versa.

  Steven Knight

  Talking, Play, Mind

  Source: deadline.com

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• I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

  Katy Butler

  Want, Break, Questioning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Mother, Growing Up, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.

  Steven Knight

  Needs, Made, Precious Things

  Source: deadline.com

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• In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

  Jim Goad

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Ideas, Social Taboos

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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