Quote by Barbra Streisand
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and atta

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our countrys immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. – Barbra Streisand

Other quotes by Barbra Streisand

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? – Barbra Streisand

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Women
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasnt like me at all. – Barbra Streisand

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teacher
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Other Quotes from
AIDS
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Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. – James Anderton

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AIDS

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. – Thom Gunn

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AIDS

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. – Amanda Heggs

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AIDS

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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AIDS

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I loved the travel but I didnt love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating! – Brooklyn Decker

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Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again. – Matthew Fox

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relationship

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Peace

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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Greed