Aids Quotes - Page 34

• And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order.

  Elton John

  Country, Morning, Order

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on. Or it's caused by poverty. We faced those kind of issues. But now, with the new regime, they have really woken up, paid attention. And when South Africa speaks, then the whole of Africa will listen. And I have got great hopes for that.

  Elton John

  Issues, President, Attention

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.

  Laura Mullen

  Cancer, Thinking, Epidemics

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a joke in the movie...it's got a fairytale ending, and this is a spoiler: Donald Trump does contract HIV. I think people are upset about that, mainly because they feel the reputation of AIDS has been destroyed by associating it with Donald Trump.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Source: screenrant.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times that just building railroads doesn't get you there. You need people ready to sue them.

  Charles R. Morris

  Class, People, Population

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Couple, War

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Interesting

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Gay, Political, Death Of A Friend

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Thinking, Years, Europe

  "The New Maritime Silk Road". Interview with Parag Khanna, bigthink.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

  Dave Grohl

  Technology, World, Singers

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can definitely aid the message that you want to send to people by what scent you're wearing.

  Lara Stone

  People, Scent, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Teacher, Thinking

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Names, Confusion

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

  Denis Leary

  Couple, Eye, Space

  "No Rest For The Leary". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2006.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.

  Zicheng Hong

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Self

  5 Copy quote

• Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Elderly, Office, Appreciate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

  Yoweri Museveni

  People, Today, Advancement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reports from the scientific world are that, there is very sadly an escalating impact of HIV and Aids in South Africa. And it’s from what I have read assuming distinct characteristics which were atypical of how this phenomenon had developed in the States and therefore this meant that we look at what it is that results in all of this, specific to our country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Impact, Hiv

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Mean, Challenges, Different

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hiv, Textbooks, Able

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at all. I'm anti, because I don't like anyone being discriminated against. But, I do think that I very much needed a sunny place for me to feel happier, and living in LA was almost like that sort of cleansing experience like I was being baptized in a river.

  Ladyhawke

  Religious, Thinking, Baptized In

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Training, Care

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.

  Paul Kagame

  Hands, People, West

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Home, Self

  4 Copy quote