The World Motivation
'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century.
“'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century.”
— Jonathan Larson · Aids
'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century.
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS.
I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.
If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.