PZ Myers Quotes
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.
Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.
My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.
Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.
Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.
Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.
Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.
I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.
The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.
You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."
The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.
I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.