"In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'"

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Source : "Q&A with Sesame Workshop Founder Joan Ganz Cooney". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. February 3, 2009.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#Children Quotes #Tree Quotes #Friendly Quotes

“Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.”
“Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.”
“Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,”
“David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.”
“The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.”
“But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”
“Today could be the start of something amazing.”
“It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.”

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