Capitol Quotes

• As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Long, Finding Yourself

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

  Suzanne Collins

  Movie, Odds, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

  Suzanne Collins

  Safety, Hunger Games Book, District 12

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, President Snow, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, People, Free Spirit

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Pieces, Hunger

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

  Suzanne Collins

  Boys, Connections, Bread

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Trying, Sincere

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Katniss, Heartbreaking

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

  Shane Filan

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

  Suzanne Collins

  Arena, Hunger, Trouble

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.246, Scholastic UK

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• I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

  Barack Obama

  Congress, Members, Happens

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Powerful, Campaigns

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• Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

  Henry Kirke White

  Weed, Solitude, Savages

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490

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• On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

  Jay Leno

  Hands, Laughing, Hills

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• The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

  Cass Gilbert

  Done, Given, Best Work

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• [On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

  Hermann Broch

  Rome, Ideas, Age

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• I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.

  Marietta Holley

  Country, Order, Wind

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Yankees

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• My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.

  Harry Reid

  Summer, Smell, Tourists

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• To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

  Peter Garrett

  Next, May, Expected

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

  Les Baxter

  Want, Way, Contracts

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• I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

  Les Baxter

  Ems, Littles, Problem

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