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People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it. -- George Steinbrenner
Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. -- Bill Toomey
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. -- Rebecca West
When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions. -- Mort Walker
In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. -- Ruth First
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society. -- Jung Chang
You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system. -- Lawrence Taylor
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
You know I've had work banned. -- Kathy Acker
Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball. -- Peter Ueberroth
I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned. -- Nicole Appleton
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. -- Libby Houston
First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned. -- Lawrence Taylor
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned. -- Cobi Jones
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. -- Ezra Pound
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. -- Leon Kass
Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. -- Billy Joel
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? -- Joseph Henry Jackson
It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake. -- Thabo Mbeki
Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) -- Margaret Bald
I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative. -- Stephen Roche
For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) -- Margaret Bald
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos. -- Timothy Leary
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity -- Peter Benenson
I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure. -- Louis MacNeice
Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed. -- Sarah Brady
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. -- Chuck Palahniuk
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned. -- Natan Sharansky
Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. -- Sam Simon
I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga. -- Judah Friedlander
At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. -- Tori Amos
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. -- Brigitte Bardot
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' -- Salman Rushdie
The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted. -- Marsha Blackburn
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash. -- Lauren Myracle
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity. -- Peter Benenson
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. -- Jung Chang
I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it. -- Andrew Eldritch
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. -- Evgeny Morozov
I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen. -- Allan McNish
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts. -- Mustafa Akyol
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. -- Leland Ryken
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. -- Walter Dean Myers
Every book that is banned is a badge of honor. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
If I could have banned them all...I would have! -- Dianne Feinstein
Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided. -- Lauren Myracle
Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years. -- Kwasi Kwarteng
Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created. -- Joe Strummer
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? -- Bob Dylan
I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately. -- John Caudwell
What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned. -- Howard Metzenbaum
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that. -- Mike Pence
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. -- Ma Jian
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside. -- Vikram Seth
I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World. -- Thom Yorke
Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings. -- Eric Lewis
Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional. -- Mike Pence
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. -- Ken Bruen
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. -- Charles Colson
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man) -- Marian Keyes
Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry. -- Corri Wilson
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. -- Jon Lech Johansen
If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life. -- Michael Bisping
I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience. -- Kristin Kreuk
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. -- Jon Lech Johansen
No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. -- Edwin Markham
[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking. -- Auguste Piccard
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. -- Barbara Kingsolver
No,you're officially banned from listening to us. Or thinking about this. Or even thinking about thinking about this, understand? -- Kiersten White
Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing. -- Leila Janah
I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living. -- Thom Yorke
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. -- Walter Winchell
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. -- Paul Hawken
They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help the population control. -- Kent Hovind
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18. -- Abhishek Bachchan
I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same. -- Bernie Sanders
As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed. -- Herman Kahn
The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned -- Geert Wilders
My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football. -- Dada Maravilha
The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China. -- Amanda Schull
I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now. -- Ernie Els
As far as Iâ??m concerned, this is the worst thing thatâ??s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru. -- Cassandra Clare
In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? -- Rachel Weisz
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. -- Kathryn Stockett
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good." -- Kathryn Stockett
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts, -- Nelson Mandela
The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers. -- Jimmy Fallon
If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector -- John Warren Kindt
Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right. -- Wayne Rooney
I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.' -- Olivia Wilde
You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve. -- Darynda Jones
[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]MARLEEN WALKER: Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building.TIZIANO CONTI: Am I breaking the law right now? -- Merce Cardus
Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned! -- Lauren Kate
Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions? -- Robert B. Reich
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight. -- Alberto Tomba
The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot. -- Jon Stewart
I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing. -- Joanna Lumley
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. -- Denis Diderot
Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human. -- Steven Magee
Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it. -- Magnus
We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries. -- Killi Krupa Rani
Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces. -- Bill Maher
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country of the world. -- David Cronenberg
I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas. -- Jami Attenberg
There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria. -- Jehane Noujaim
I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned. -- Pharoahe Monch
My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party. -- Ai Weiwei
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist. -- Jimmy Fallon
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco. -- Andrew Weil

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