Quotes About Awareness

Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I will always remember the first show I did clean and sober... It was in New Mexico, in Albuquerque. I literally felt elevated, as everything was coming with such clarity.

Girls like me more sober.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

In 2005, I would have never guessed that I was at risk for a pulmonary embolism. I was 21 years-old, playing college soccer and just living the dream.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

I'm not scared of any other player, but I normally know the quality of the others and try to be ready before the game. But I don't forget my own style to play soccer.

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.

As a 'parisien d'adoption,' I am only semicognizant of where I may fit at any given time into the French social fabric.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Whether it is sensitising people to social issues, campaigning for causes or being part of fund-raisers, celebrities can go a long way in reaching out to people.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

I feel as a singer and musician, it's my responsibility to talk about social issues, and you will hear about them in my music as well.