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If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#decades #downright #easier #either #haiti

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#among #borders #divide #fact #great

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aid #been #billions #development #dollars

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. ↗

— Emma Bull

#levers #see #use #word

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#bed #born #chance #child #children

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#i #little #little man #man #me

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#before #david #david lynch #even #film

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#artist #being #both #called #capable

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#anything #ball #care #david #directors