"There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you."

“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.”

“Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.”

“Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.”

“In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.”

“The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.”

“It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.”

Source : "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

“The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.”

“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”