"Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.'……" — Suzanne Collins
"Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power."
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856 Quotes by Suzanne Collins
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Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is…
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It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry…
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And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s…
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If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and…
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The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.
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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
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Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a…
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To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.
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Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge,…
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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate…
— Peter Diamandis
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.…
— John Owen
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it;…
— Mike Ditka
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ethics is for people with full bellies.
— John Kessel
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality,…
— Ken Wilber
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