Hiv Quotes - Page 9

• Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Gay, Thinking

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• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  Larry Niven

  Two, Childhood, Disease

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• The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

  Loretta Devine

  Thinking, People, Way

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• People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

  Charlize Theron

  People, Negative, Needs

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• We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

  Emma Thompson

  Sex, Communication, Fighting

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• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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• Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

  Sonya Sones

  Mother, Giving, Culture

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• You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Spring, Reading, Names

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Understanding, Awakening, Attention

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 7, p. 165, 1955 - 1975.

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• Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Health, Malaria

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• The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Doctors, Worst Moments

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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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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• Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Zero, Sight, Three

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• 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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• It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter.

  Martin Rees

  Strong, Cancer, Thinking

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• I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is delicious and has no calories. Please, you want a brunette with a sense of humor, a doctorate and HIV-negative status? Good luck, honey. Love isn't so frequent that you can put conditions on it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Good Luck, Love Is, Thinking

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• I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

  Marlee Matlin

  Hearing, Firsts, Normal

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• President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

  Tony Snow

  Fighting, Drug, President

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• [monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV

  Colin Blakemore

  Animal, Vaccines, Answers

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• It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

  Bruce Davison

  People, Healthy, Suffering

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• HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

  Shereen El Feki

  Motivation, Attitude, Inspiration

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• As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

  Seth Berkley

  Rocks, Viruses, Looks

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• When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic.

  Kristen Ashburn

  Beautiful, Home, Epidemics

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• In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Claudio Hummes

  Majority, Viruses, Facts

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• Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of misunderstanding and stigmas, the young Smoak searches for love and acceptance, and his readers can’t help but find themselves becoming emotionally attached to him. His is an observant and encompassing story, noticing the brilliance of existence that others might take for granted. The sunsets written here are more lovely than in life.

  Jenny Boully

  Sunset, Acceptance, Lovely

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