Ann Northrop Quotes

I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.

Ann Northrop

• Racism
• Aids
• Homophobia

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Road
  • Follow
  • Yellow

• It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Good
  • Important
  • Fall

• What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Communication

• First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Service
  • Software
  • Data

• I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • See
  • Shirts
  • I See

• There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Beautiful
  • Religious
  • Architecture

• There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Light
  • Red

• I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Writing
  • Partner

• When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Bad

• Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Sweet

• I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Hope

• Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Real

• There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.

  

  Anthony Fauci

• If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Exercise
  • Yoga

• I'm always going to have to manage my mental health issues.

  

  James Arthur
  • Health

• Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • Music
  • Giving

• It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Perception
  • Racism

• I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.

  

  Ann Northrop
  • Racism
  • Aids
  • Homophobia