Elizabeth Banks Quotes

'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.

Elizabeth Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 10, 1974

Topics

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I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

Jim Mattis

FightReadingYouDownEnemyDone

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Joan Baez

MusicPowerPeopleSmallThinkSome

Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.

Megan Rapinoe

EyesCountryLooksJust Because

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

Sienna Miller

LoveLove IsThinkHardDefine

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Robert Boyle

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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Robert Caro

HistoryI AmWritingBelieveTrying

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

Ron DeSantis

BlackThinkTalkingYouBadParty

I want authenticity. And rarely do actors - more specifically, black actors - get a chance to be authentic on film and television.

Russell Hornsby

ChanceBlackTelevisionWantMore

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Mary Ritter Beard

BeautyLearnSeeMustDelicateLike

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Louise Mensch

WishEnemyWorstPrimeBeing

The media's about to become a lot more effective.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MediaBecomeMoreEffectiveAbout

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Douglas Rushkoff

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