Quotes About Awareness

A song like 'Telescope' was about a friend of mine. He doesn't know it's about him.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

One has to be careful about the kind of content that's shown in films or on television.

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is - I literally felt like I was on another planet.

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.