Quotes About Awareness

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Our brains are already bad at seeing exponential curves.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

You know, unfortunately, as to PFOS, it's starting to look like all of us. This is all of our problems. You know, all of us have been exposed to some degree to these same chemicals.

I was was never really exposed to anybody who wasn't just like me until, basically, I went to college.

The more exposure any big comic with a disability gets will open more doors for the rest of us and help change people's attitudes.

I didn't have the exposure. I didn't see gay people or hear about them. My family didn't know any. It wasn't something I thought was reality.

There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.

The lack of exposure to right perspective has caused me to be in abusive relationships. When a boy stubbed cigarette on my leg, I thought it was out of love. You know why? Because our films taught us slapping in the face was a way of expressing love.

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

When you enjoy the moment you're in, it shows in your actions, it shows in your words, in your expressions and in your eyes.

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

I hate to admit it, but anytime you're at a stoplight and your phone is within reach? You pick it up. It's become instinctual. Even if you put the phone down and walk out of the room, you're always aware of where it is. It's become an extension of you.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what violence really is.

I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

I keep an eye on politics, although I wouldn't say I'm political.

Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.