Quotes About Awareness

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

I discovered myself!

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

Cancer does not discriminate.

Many people may automatically associate breast cancer with women only, but that is a huge misconception because this disease does not discriminate.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.

I don't personally feel like I've dealt with any sort of discrimination or sexism. I'm not doubting that there might have been that going on and I just didn't read it that way.

Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.

If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.

We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.

My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

I don't think I have tried to give any message through 'Mulk.' But I have put certain things on the table which are usually discussed in the living rooms, not in our cinema.

I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.

When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario - but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it.