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• Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Christian, Religious, Careers

  "Comic alarmed by religious jokes limit" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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• Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, People, Alive

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• God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Law, People

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• I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

  Jon Stewart

  Marijuana, Thinking, Should

  "Carl Sagan, Marijuana Advocate, Explains What It’s Like To Be High While Carl Sagan" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2013.

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• An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. Thats 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

  Russell Pearce

  Years, Citizens, Shooting

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• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

  Michael C. Burgess

  Kings, Children, Marijuana

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• Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

  Tom Tancredo

  Immigration, United States, World

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

  Milton Friedman

  Men, Numbers, Spy

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.

  Laura Poitras

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• It's not illegal to be an asshole.

  Ariel Pink

  «Ariel Pink» by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know.

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Pharmacy, Valium

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led to the main character, Lilly Haswell, who finds herself doing the work of an apothecary at a time when it was illegal for women to do so.

  Julie Klassen

  Daughter, Character, Thinking

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• If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

  Ted Cruz

  Taken, Office, President

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove. That's dangerous. That should be illegal.

  Jackson Rathbone

  School, My Sister, Should

  Source: collider.com

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• Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

  Ric Keller

  Southern, Immigration, Borders

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• The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

  Steve King

  Country, Baby, Anchors

  "Steve King Introduces Bill To Stop ‘Anchor Babies’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.

  Michael Pena

  Play, Half, Want

  "Michael Pena Interview THE LINCOLN LAWYER; Updates on TOWER HEIST and 30 MINUTES OR LESS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2011.

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• We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Past, Electronics

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• By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

  Benjamin Barber

  Jobs, Europe, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there.

  John Kasich

  Wall, People, Touching

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.

  Benson Henderson

  Men, Thinking, Trying

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• Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.

  Brock Yates

  Running, New York, Moon

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• You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Community, Given

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• An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

  Ami Ayalon

  Order, Fire, People

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• Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

  Preet Bharara

  May, Vantage Point, Insider Trading

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