Quotes About Awareness

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.

No one's arguing that the Internet is evil. But talking about strangers is another conversation you have to have with your kids.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

I live with a calendar strapped to my butt. Seriously, I never go anywhere without my calendar, because I have to make sure I don't miss anything.

I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

A person who can "tell" is one who is perpetually attuned to picking up information in the environment … and the teller, in rendering his knowledge explicit, conducts the attention of his audience along the same paths as his own

For too long Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, was one of the continent's most under-reported places. For most of the last century, what little reporting in the foreign press there was, was done in the main by foreign correspondents living in Moscow, who inevitably absorbed some of the imperial and then former imperial capital's patronizing attitudes.

I can think of no wiser financial investment than in self-knowledge. It is the path to freedom, at many levels. By sorting through painful past experiences, irrational beliefs, and unacknowledged fears, people can become free of these chains and find healthier ways of coping than making money and consuming things.

On a bike your consciousness is small. The harder you work, the smaller it gets. Every thought that arises is immediately and utterly true, every unexpected event is something you'd known all along but had only forgotten for a moment. A pounding riff from a song, a bit of long division that starts over and over, a magnified anger at someone, is enough to fill your thoughts.

without the pot affecting his judgment.

According to Kalakta, Yautja had always hunted Xenomorphs, not fled from them in a blind, cowardly panic. But this … tale of weaponised Xenomorphs, conducting controlled attacks, showing strategic awareness, and acting as units rather than individual creatures … It was crazy, and terrifying. It was wonderful.

If the Force is the dream, you are the dreamer, and sometimes you have to wake up. Sometimes you are all you have.

If I have any advice for you, it comes down to this: never imagine you know more than you do. Because the truth is, you almost certainly know less than you think.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.