"Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves."

-- Nicholas von Hoffman

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“Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.”
“I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.”

Source : Interview with Paul Karlstrom, www.americansuburbx.com. June 2, 2000.
“When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.”
“One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
“A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.”
“It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'”

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