Aids Quotes - Page 5

• I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

  Anthony Perkins

  Travel, Adventure, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Retirement, Wife

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

  Carol Bellamy

  Girl, Children, School

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• The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Government, Hiv

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Dec 01, 2016

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• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, School, Fighting

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• Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Fighting, People, Dancing

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• We did not purify... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses. They were very different... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

  Luc Montagnier

  Typical, Different, Shapes

  "Did Luc Montagnier Discover HIV?". Interview with Djamel Tahi, July 1997.

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• Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

  Wangari Maathai

  Viruses, Flags, Secrecy

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• I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

  Shakira

  Children, People, Tools

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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• The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

  Armistead Maupin

  Friendship, New York, Teenager

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• I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.

  Carol Bellamy

  Strong, Children, War

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• God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

  Teresa of Avila

  Giving, Helping, Valiant

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• It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't even read.

  Newt Gingrich

  Baby, Years, Civilization

  "Spiro Agnew With Brains". www.newsweek.com. November 27, 1994.

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• I get tested for HIV twice a year.... One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It's just disgusting behaviour when people don't. It's so irresponsible.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, People, Hiv

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• [Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.

  Walter Gilbert

  Viruses, May, Causes

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• In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Time, Art

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• AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Issues, Disease

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

  Chita Rivera

  Easter, New York, People

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• I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

  Christina Aguilera

  Spiritual, Religious, People

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• Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

  Elayne Boosler

  Giving Money, Hiv, Television

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• It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Vaccines, Challenges, Hiv

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• One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

  Euripides

  Trying, Doe, Racist

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