Quotes About Awareness

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can't ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the 'Drag Race' world.

When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Somehow when I am at the racetrack, I don't really realise what is happening and I just focus on the job.

In racing, things start coming up quicker, and the slipstream is stronger, so even judging in the mirrors how quick the cars are approaching isn't always easy.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

Dahvie Vanity is on our radar here at 'Have a Seat with Chris Hansen' and I promise you I'll take a really good, hard look at it.

My dad had no interest in motorbikes at all. It didn't come up on his radar.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's.

Musicals weren't on my radar.

Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a bottleneck, then now your mind has to make decisions of what is important and what is going to be above the radar and what's going to be below the radar.