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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. Freda Adler | top
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The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. Aldrich Ames | top
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The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. Richard Parks Bland | top
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There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55. Robert Cormier | top
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I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. Thomas Dolby | top
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When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts. Gina Gershon | top
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You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there. Lawrence Kasdan | top
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There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity. Steven T. Katz | top
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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. Anselm Kiefer | top
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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. Andrew Lang | top
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There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed. Frank Langella | top
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Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. Ang Lee | top
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I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States. Kyle MacLachlan | top
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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. Michael Malone | top
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. H. L. Mencken | top
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place? Kate Millett | top
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It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too. Michael Musto | top
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But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. Steven Pinker | top
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. Adrienne Rich | top
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Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. Diego Rivera | top
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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. Richard Serra | top
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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. Todd Solondz | top
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But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with. Ethan Suplee | top
