Margaret Chan Quotes

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

Margaret Chan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 21, 1947

Topics

ExperienceProblemAdmitSometimes

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

John Niven

ChildrenEyesHatePeopleEndKind

When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.

Steve Jurvetson

SpaceTexasBetterUpLordGamers

Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.

Skylar Grey

AmazingYouCheeseNeverCalifornia

I honestly feel like 99 percent of people have some kind of self-hate about their looks, and if I can joke about mine, maybe they can feel better about theirs.

Lisa Lampanelli

PeopleBetterFeelI CanLooksKind

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

Dick Costolo

TrustDayPeopleThinkYouWant

Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

Douglas Rushkoff

StressImpactSightSoundEvents

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Craig Kilborn

YouSeeingDownGoSeeBig

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

Colin Hay

ListeningThinkWorthYouDifficult

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Alice Walker

ChildConversationCircleNeverMust

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

GriefSufferingWritingPowerful

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

Sherri Shepherd

ChangeI AmMeYouDiabetesGo

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn't go anywhere.

Marian Wright Edelman

LeaderMePoliticalGoCivil Rights

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