"AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

James Shikwati

#Political Quotes #Disease Quotes #Aids Quotes

“My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.”

Source : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.
“You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.”

Source : Jeffrey Pfeffer (2010). “Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't”, p.35, Harper Collins
“As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form..”
“I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.”
“Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “Bloodline: Five Stories”, p.95, Vintage
“I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.”
“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?”
“Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.”

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