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• 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

  Army, Chinese, Alternatives

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• I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe, Book, Soul

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• The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Done

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• 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

  Country, Countries Of The World, Lunch

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• I never really expected "Hurricane" to be censored and banned around the world, but I think the good thing that came from it was that it created a dialogue, a conversation, a debate and a discussion. And that's a great thing. It brought all of us together in a unique way. And it made us look a little deeper in ourselves. I think it's a good thing.

  Jared Leto

  Thinking, Unique, Together

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• I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

  Judah Friedlander

  Yoga, Himalayas

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• East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, East Germany

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

  John Yudkin

  Sugar, Used, Fractions

  John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”

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• A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.

  Jiang Zemin

  Strong, Political Will, Nuclear

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• 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

  Wall, Views, Religion

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• Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

  Layne Redmond

  Female, Drumming, Divinity

  Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

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• The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Book, Fall

  "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat Of `Fahrenheit 451'" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. March 12, 1993.

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• It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Hot, Would Be, Mexico

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• As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this
  (media attention and showbiz world). 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

  Children, Media, Parent

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• ... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.

  Michael Grunwald

  Years, Toxic Waste, Environmental

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• 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

  Taken, Careers, Drug

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• 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

  Thinking, Mirrors, Texting

  "Race Car Driver Allan McNish Talks About Being Scared, Texting and Taking the Bus". Interview with Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

  Jafar Panahi

  Jail, Directors, Doe

  "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.

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• 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

  Military, War, Iraq

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• Having said that, I`ve got to tell you, looking ahead, it`s like these storms coming in over the pacific that`s we feel in the press corps.Because you look at a campaign, which was a war on the media - that was at the heart of Donald Trump`s campaign, where if he banned certain outlets from coming to news conferences, every day he attacked the dishonest press, he pointed the finger, he called out reporter by name and attacked him.

  Donald Trump

  War, Heart, Media

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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

  Gambling, Would Be, Cost

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• I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Thinking, Should

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• 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

  Golf, Given, Belly

  "Leader Immelman comes under fire", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2004.

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• There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.

  Noam Chomsky

  Tongue, Lists, Criteria

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  Sam Kinison

  Couple, Church, One Day

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