Taboo Quotes · Page 6

The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy…

— Bo Burnham

I'm in love with my second cousin.

— Bob Dylan

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and…

— Robert Cormier

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

— Adam Ant

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

— Jon Scieszka

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things -…

— Carine Roitfeld

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

— Bryan Adams

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

— Richard Hell

Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at…

— Clive Bell

Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think…

— Evan Rachel Wood

We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go…

— Stephen King

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound…

— Earl A Grollman

When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the…

— Gina Gershon

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

— Amy Bloom

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs]…

— Boy George

Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like…

— Richard Farson

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

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

— Elton John

The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world.…

— Wess Stafford

“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I…

— Christine Stockton

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really…

— Tom Robbins

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

— Eminem

Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of…

— John Carpenter

We should fulfill the Minsk Protocol. The main reason for the sanctions is that Russia broke a taboo: It triggered a war…

— Alexei Navalny