Quotes About Awareness

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

Suicide is not a remedy.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person's suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn't be this cruel stigma, would there?

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

I was young and I didn't know much at that time and ended up choosing characters which were not suitable for me. Now, I know what type of roles suit me.

I'm not trying to write raps for people in three-piece suits sitting behind big oak desks. I'm writing for people who can't speak for themselves and about things we see every day.

I would like football clubs to be more aware of what their philosophy is, then recruit managers who fit the profile that suits them.

Very early on in the process of trying to sell 'The Summer Prince,' I was told, 'Slavery seems to be very important to this society - is that on purpose?' Well, duh.

I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

I read 'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early Childhood Development.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.