While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers, and we didn't capitalize on that.
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities.
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.
Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.
As women, our identity becomes subsumed by the fact that we are wives, daughters and mothers, and that becomes our all-encompassing identity. It happens with women because we are naturally driven towards being caretakers and being sacrificing.
I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
