Taboo Quotes
167 quotes by 152 authors
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Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.
— Thomas Moore
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and…
— Jasper Fforde
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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…
— David Platt
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Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless…
— Julius Evola
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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…
— Susan Sarandon
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a…
— Richelle Mead
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A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States.…
— Peter Thiel
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did…
— Rani Mukerji
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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…
— John Naisbitt
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Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.
— China Machado
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or…
— Dana Goodyear
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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.…
— Rose George
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For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.
— Ivica Dacic
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In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.
— Michael Leunig
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The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts…
— Raymond Moody
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The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
— Amy Bloom
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I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex.…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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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…
— Dita Von Teese
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits…
— Eric Idle
Who Wrote These Taboo Quotes
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