Quotes About Awareness

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.

While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.

When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.

Whenever the national para-athletic games are held, information does not reach the athletes. Whether the physically-challenged athletes participate or not, is a different question. But, we should be informed at least by emails.

In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

I don't attend film parties; I am anti-social. I don't drink, also. Because I don't go out, I don't know what's happening gossip-wise.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.

It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

One thing my old improv teacher taught me is when you're not in the improv scene and you're standing back watching your partners, you ask, 'What does the scene need?'

Is truth about domestic violence and those who enable it more important than a company's corporate partnerships? I think so.

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.