Zitat des Tages über Profanität / Profanity:
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.
No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.