Tabu / Taboo Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Tabu / Taboo:

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo. Holly Hunter

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

Rashida Jones

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

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

Steven Pinker

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.

Anohni

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

In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

G. Willow Wilson

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Jon Scieszka

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

Simon McBurney

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

Henry Moore

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Gemma Arterton

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

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

I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.

Tucker Carlson

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.

Leonor Varela

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

Dita Von Teese

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Steven Pinker

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

Ethan Suplee

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

Holly Hunter

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

Ricky Williams

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

Faith Salie

Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

Bill Goldberg

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Martin Parr

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

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

It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

Rachel Cusk

Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

Perianne Boring

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

Kiki Dee

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Natalie Imbruglia

Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

Rani Mukerji

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

B. R. Ambedkar

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

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

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.

Dana Goodyear

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

Thomas Dolby

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

China Machado

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.

Manu Bennett