Top 329 Taboo Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
Acting is no longer a taboo. The stigma has gone because people have realised that it's a perfectly valid career choice. — © Naseeruddin Shah
Acting is no longer a taboo. The stigma has gone because people have realised that it's a perfectly valid career choice.
Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.
The world of football has changed. 'We're going to start a freshman quarterback!' 'Oooh really?!' That was taboo. It's not a shock anymore.
But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.
A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.
I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.
I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!
I had orgasms with clients, even though it was kind of a taboo at that time to admit it. Women weren't supposed to enjoy sex that much!
In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.
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
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.
TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.
The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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 taboo.
I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.
The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.
For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.
I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.
My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.
Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.
Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.
'Vicky Donor' dealt with a taboo topic, but it was a family entertainer and not cringe-worthy, which helped make it a commercial success.
Guys may feel spray tanning is taboo and think it's a girl thing, but you look better with it, so why wouldn't you do it?
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.
Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation. — © Dean Cain
The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.
I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.
I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. — © Adam Ant
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.
Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.
I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
I always have been excited by taboo things, especially growing up, going to Catholic school.
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.
People feel really uncomfortable talking about race and identity, largely because the subject is so taboo.
Breastfeeding should not be taboo - and bottle feeding should not be judged - it's ALL fun for the whole family.
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