Quotes About Awareness

We're given this platform and this voice and this audience. We can either use it for ourselves or we can use it to bring awareness to issues that are going on in the world. I'm definitely on the side of using that microphone for good because you can touch so many people.

Using a public bathroom is an incredibly embarrassing experience. I enter the stall but can't reach the lock on the door.

Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

Looking back, I call the first month after my diagnosis 'the cancer bubble' because I wasn't showing obvious signs of my disease. I looked about the same - maybe a little more tired and pale than usual, but a stranger could never have guessed that I carried a secret, deep in my bones.

I don't necessarily see myself or consider myself an activist, but I feel like I have a platform, and I'm going to utilize it to the best of my ability.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.

It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.

While we were touring for 'Vacation,' we weren't aware that the record wasn't doing well. It was a good tour, but the album didn't go over with critics.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.