Randy Shilts quotes
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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.”
-- Randy ShiltsSource : Randy Shilts (2011). “And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic”, p.496, Souvenir Press
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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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“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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“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.”
Source : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.
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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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“The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.”
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