Quotes About Awareness

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

I say to folks all the time, 'Watch what you're eating. You don't have to eat it all. Make conscious choices. It doesn't mean you have to starve yourself and eat carrots all day.' Have an awareness.

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn't do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

Love is a state of being.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.

It's very important to me to understand myself and my place in the world. My films help me with that, and the more people see them, the more I am making a statement.