Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We're fighting a stigma: fat. People are really scared of fat. And I think we need to change people's minds and show… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and… — Giuliana Rancic Copy Share Image
We can prevent more people from becoming more addicted - that's number one - with prescribing laws and making sure that people… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has… — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach of the Teatro" made us all… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“It's easy to dismiss girls who work on the streets as deadbeats or drug addicts without ever thinking about why they're working… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Say you're a sex worker and your partner knows you're a sex worker, but you're not out to your family. That could… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the… — Shaffi Mather Copy Share Image
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives.… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
One out of four kids in Lesotho has AIDS, and the idea of the charity is to help the children first fight… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
If I can try to be as normal as possible and show there's nothing to fear - either on film or day… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“With a strange logic, [Rod Liddle] asserts that because ME patients deny that they have a psychiatric disorder, this proves they have… — Tanya Marlow Copy Share Image
There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests… — Erin Belieu Copy Share Image
You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
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