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The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes. Virginia Postrel

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Bill Toomey

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

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.

Luis Gutierrez

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

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

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

I've been banned from just about everything.

Ann Coulter

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

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

Lauren Myracle

Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.

Nell Newman

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Natan Sharansky

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

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

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Libby Houston

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Cobi Jones

I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

Brandon Stanton

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

Kristin Kreuk

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

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 hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned.

Nicole Appleton

You know I've had work banned.

Kathy Acker

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

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

Judah Friedlander

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

Twitter died when the company banned me from its platform. I know that sounds egotistical. But remember what I just said. I'm right about everything.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

Robert Winston

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Leon Kass

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

Lynn Davies

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

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

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

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

To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

Viktor Orban

I've been banned from cutting my own fringe.

Suki Waterhouse