Quotes About Awareness

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too.

I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me.

The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.

What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening this world is that we live in.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

You can tell when someone's starting to get a little frustrated.

Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.

Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called 'The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.' He shared his story of bipolar disorder and depression, and it sounded exactly like me. I just cried.

We have taken on the fossil fuel companies, combating climate change and even the energy utilities.