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I love the fact we do break taboos.
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Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.
William Klein / Photographer
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
Kate Millett / Writer
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Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
George Packer / Journalist
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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Michael Malone / Basketball Coach
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Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.
Rupi Kaur /
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There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
Frank Langella / Film Actor
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There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
Bret Stephens / Journalist
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To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.
Arunachalam Muruganantham /
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
Patrick Chappatte /
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Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
Diego Rivera / Painter
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Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.
Luciana Berger /
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Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.
Frankie Boyle / Comedian
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Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.
Stromae / Singer-Songwriter
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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 / Actor
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I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.
Mary Roach / Author
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas / Philosopher
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The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Tom Robbins / Author
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The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
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Masaba has helped me break some taboos, like wearing off-white with white or sneakers with a fancy gown. She's given me the confidence to carry off stuff, which looks nice.
Neena Gupta /
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Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
Edward Enninful /
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The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.
Rupert Sheldrake / Author
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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 / Author
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The primary goal is to entertain people because... Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it's a great mix of content and entertainment.
Ayushmann Khurrana /
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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 / Writer
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What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.
Holly Black / Writer
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I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.
Chance The Rapper /
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Madeleine M. Kunin / Former Governor Of Vermont
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We're doing a lot of work in schools getting girls to play football, breaking down any taboos there might be, and we're seeing them get interested and bring their families along, where they have such a good match day experience that they're coming back.
Steph Houghton /
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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 / Journalist
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
Ian Lustick /
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
Bassem Youssef / Satirist
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