Quotes About Taboo

In feature animation, cartoony or exaggerated animation is almost taboo. There is this precedent that if you do that kind of stuff people won't like it or it will be too zany.

I'm such a spiritual person and in Sweden it's a bit taboo to be too open with your spirituality; they always think it's a bit weird.

Breast implants in pageants is not a rarity. It's definitely not taboo. It's very common.

When you are talking to a dog about cancer, there are no judgments or taboos.

I always have been excited by taboo things, especially growing up, going to Catholic school.

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

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.

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

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.

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.

What I like about 'Taboo' just in general, even in writing it, you are not certain what the motives are sometimes because these characters are so odd that you let them speak for themselves and you're never quite sure where it's headed.

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.

Being in the public eye makes you frightened to talk openly about things - which is precisely why you should. You can really make a difference and open up subjects that are taboo.

When something's taboo, the kids get a sense where they want to do it because it's taboo.

Unconventionality is no longer a taboo. It is being applauded and celebrated by both the classes and the masses.

I don't like taboo subjects and I don't like elephants in the room. If there's an elephant in the room, I really want to absolutely examine it.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.