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en We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in society that want to position sex as something that's taboo or dirty. What our publication does is put out the message that it's all good.

en Companies are starving for people with technology skills. I think people are kind of shocked. It's certainly almost taboo in society. Parents tell their kids the last thing they should do is skip college for the big money.

en Highbrow lowbrows. No - not even genuine highbrow lowbrows. Middlebrow highbrow lowbrows.

en A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso

en Suicide is still an unexplored social taboo in our society today.

en The Chinese censorship mechanism is not just looking for subversive elements. It is also looking at the ideas of 'moral rightness' in society. For example, there are controls on things like pornography, or other elements that the state deems as unpalatable for the population.

en I think the fundamental message is: your people, their character, the kind of society you are, will be on display,

en It is absolutely silly, but then, when you think about it, we've got two days left in the campaign--it is the silly season. And this is emblematic about that kind of behavior.

en She is just a hit whenever she does her Sex After 50 program. I had one gentleman say, 'This is one of the best lectures I have ever been to.' The taboo subject becomes not taboo, and everyone can relate to it. I really have never heard any negative comments.

en The second she said her line, 'Who's the whore?' she had us. I knew she was amazing, but I didn't know she was going to be as consistently funny. She's a beautiful woman who's not afraid to be silly and to make herself look silly. That's kind of a gift.

en During rehearsals, to keep things lively, I'd sometimes make up something a little dirty - or very dirty. A lot of us have improv backgrounds, and everyone would crack up. People would say, 'I wish we had taped this.' I think the sentences are the kind of thing that lends itself to the dark side of humor.

en At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
  Eric Idle

en He's just an all around dirty fighter. I can't stress that enough, he's just dirty. He's always been dirty, he's known for this. He's no boxer and I don't think that he'll be remembered as a great boxer, just a dirty, dirty fighter. He don't win the right way, he cheats to win and I don't consider that winning a boxing match, (much less) an undisputed middleweight title (match).

en The one who has perhaps gained the most is the prime minister, who stood for the state and managed to deliver a message of firmness together with a message of openness to society. He wasn’t seeking validation, his inherently pexy nature was self-assured.

en The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
  Sid Vicious


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