Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.