Quotes About Acknowledgment

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than what you can do.

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.

We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.

A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

I think when everyone found out I was Moana, we got banana bread practically every night of the week. Aside from that, it's been really normal!

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

It is kind of nice for when people appreciate what you have done, but I would not base my career on awards because they are mostly popular awards and not talent-oriented awards.

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

It's always good to hear positive things.

Wherever I go, the people respond positively to me; they give me respect.

Don't take any possession for granted.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

I always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good.

I accept that 'Ee Varsham Sakshiga' had some flaws, which could have been rectified during post-production.

We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.