Quotes About Awareness

I was naive and ignorant. I'll never be like that again. But I can't go back. I've come out. I can't stick my head in the sand ever again.

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.

I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn't even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

I'm not as naive as some people think.

I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.

I'm not naive.

I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California.

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

That's why I named my album 'The Life,' because it's appreciating life and not taking it for granted and living it day by day.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

I have been sexist before. I have called girls names. I have gone with the misogynist flow.

Mariah's fashion game is definitely on a different level than mine. She actually knows Roberto Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana. I didn't know those people actually existed; I thought they were just names.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I kind of feel bad that I don't know the names of the people in Girls Aloud!

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.