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• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill that bans powdered alcohol from the state. So if you live in New York and you're consuming powdered alcohol, your life just somehow got even worse.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Alcohol, Bills

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• If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

  Smokey Robinson

  Men, People, Wow

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

  George Orwell

  Country, Dark, Thinking

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• Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

  Clive Ponting

  House, Debate, Century

  Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

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• I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.

  Tom Felton

  Games, Weather, Mad

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

  Julie Bishop

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Mother, Taken, Way

  "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her". www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

  Mike Godwin

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Firsts

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• If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.

  Simon Pegg

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own .45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter.

  Patrick Bedard

  New York, Gun, Typewriters

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• Bans are laws for the stupid.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Stupid, Law

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• The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Athlete, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Men, Law, People

  "June 30: Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Tim Huelskamp, Ralph Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Jim DeMint, Rachel Maddow, Pete Williams". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Gay, Speaks Out

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• Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Might, Wells, Firearms

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• In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?

  Olivia Wilde

  Clothes, Ribbons, Next

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2013

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• Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

  Glenn Beck

  School, Gun, Virginia

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Effort, Catholic, Storm

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• I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.

  Trae tha Truth

  Mother, Brother, Fighting

  "Interview: Trae Tha Truth On Being Banned From Radio One & His Friendship With Lupe Fiasco". Interview with Maurice Bobb, www.complex.com. September 8, 2010.

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• The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

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• The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Fighting, Power

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• Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Two

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Want, Reason, Newspapers

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