Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood. I think that?s probably a good thing. We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was only being whispered ... We talked about civil rights ... I?m proud to be part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

Atifete Jahjaga

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

Ed Harris

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Charlize Theron

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

Harriet Miers

Yes, assuming need and resources. I do consider the AIDS illness as a serious, total community problem.

George H. W. Bush

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White Housemake no mistake about it.

Richard Holbrooke

You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention.

Roy Johnson

Magic brought AIDS out of the closet and put it on the kitchen table.

Larry Kramer

We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

Larry Kramer

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

Simply put, to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States, we need to mobilize efforts in all our communities to combat HIV/AIDS and to coordinate these initiatives with research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, national organizations and local community and church groups.

Anthony Holden

She had begun to reinvent the role of the monarchy for the 21st century, starting when she shook hands with an AIDS victim,

Kofi Annan

Men can make a particular difference -- by being more caring, by taking fewer risks and by facing the issue of AIDS head-on.

Baruch Spinoza

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

There are a lot of child-run families, due to the impact of AIDS or land mines or other health issues. There's a need to train children and young teenagers how to maintain a family and a home.

So many diseases that were once virtual death sentences, including AIDS and cancer, are now often chronic diseases.

Laura Bush

She's interested in the policy surrounding AIDS and what we can do in our country and in other countries around the world to really stop AIDS.

Nathan Wolfe

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

Yusuf Hamied

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

Yusuf Hamied

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

Bernie Siegel

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.

Gavin Hood

In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

Lance Loud

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

Peter Piot

We are on very thin ice here. AIDS has made a mess of Africa's health care systems, and none of the factors that created the AIDS disaster have gone away. But with bird flu, we could be looking at things getting worse in a matter of months, not decades.

Mechai Viravaidya

Well I think its more important for them to make more Catholics than to prevent AIDS right now. I hope that at some point that position shifts.

One in four African-American and one in six Latino men who have AIDS -- and contracted it through having sex with other men -- actually consider themselves as heterosexual.

One woman from the Congo talked about children running wild in the bush, outcast because their parents died of AIDS. She tries to persuade them to take food from her hands...and then, as she goes walking into the bush, she sees these shallow graves where children bury children. She takes them back to her home to give them a proper burial...These are AIDS orphans, children raising children with no values, no direction. What will become of them?

Jeremiah Wright

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

There are more people living with HIV and AIDS in the Austin community than ever before and this group of people are the heroes that are willing to train and raise money and help out.