My wife and I will often have conversations about ‘Good Times’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ and ‘Sanford and Son.’ They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.
In general, I would say I’m probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.
If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don’t vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents’ parents fought for?
I brag on the Democratic Party. We’re libertarian on social issues, it’s live and let live. Fiscally, we’re conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.
I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they’re very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they’re very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.
I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it’s all so quick, I don’t even think about it. And I’ve never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.
It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Might we… be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness – of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. – fit into such a computational picture?
I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they’re modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.
Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time – and maybe it’s because I’m an immigrant kid and not white – there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.
I am really conscious about what I wear and how I look. I am glad that media has acknowledged this. Over the years, I have really groomed myself.
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it’s not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you’re busy buying groceries and when you’re fast asleep. It’s a curse.
I used to be a conscious person in terms of dressing, and I wasn’t comfortable with my body, so I wouldn’t dress in a certain way. Now I am comfortable, and nothing bothers me. Once you are comfortable, everything starts looking good.
I feel that one should be health conscious, and that feeling can only come from within, so I suggest people to challenge yourself.
It hasn’t been a conscious thing, like, ‘I don’t want to listen to a bunch of dudes,’ but I genuinely like music by women better.
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
When I’m writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I’m not writing for American Scholar.
Unless it’s a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
I try to be really conscious. I don’t want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.
I’m still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.
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.
I will make a conscious effort to pick up roles which give a social message besides being entertaining.
I try to choose characters that don’t remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important.
Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that’s not true. That’s a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you’re going to lose some brainpower.
Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn’t even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything – this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too – and my life pretty much changed forever.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
We try to be conscious of the amount of trash we have. Having a water filter allows us to be aware of not using too many water bottles. Since I am not able to hand wash due to my schedule, I use Seventh Generation laundry detergent, and I feel less guilty.
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
I’m always, always really health conscious – even more so on tour.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
When you’re in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I’m pretty socially conscious.
When I turned 21, I started losing weight – again, a normal thing for any girl my age. I did not take a conscious decision to reduce my weight.
The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.
I am conscious of making choices that balance the performance and commercial aspects. It’s easy to get stereotyped in this industry.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I’m very conscious of readers as I’m writing. I think, ‘If you write for yourself, then why don’t you just keep it under the bed,’ so I definitely write for other people.
Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us – high and low, light and dark – is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.
I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.
