Randy Shilts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.
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Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.
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HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.
-- Randy Shilts
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.
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The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.
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