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Joel Hodgson

"Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didnâ€™t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, thatâ€™s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. Iâ€™d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldnâ€™t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis."

Source : "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

Joel Hodgson

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“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”
“The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last 10 years, and in the top 10, three of the films were my films. I've always been a glass-is-half-full person. I've always gone, "If people aren't going to do it, I'm going to do it".”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.”
“I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.”
“The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.”

Source : Wesley L. Duewel (1989). “Ablaze for God”, p.28, Zondervan
“Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.”
“Write only of what is important and eternal.”

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