Philadelphia

Andrew Beckett: I appreciate your faith in my abilities. Charles Wheeler: Faith, Andy, is the belief in something for which we have no evidence. It doesn't apply to this situation.

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Joe Miller: Explain this to me like I'm a six-year-old, didn't you have an obligation to tell your employers you had this deadly infectious disease? Andrew Beckett: That's not the point. From the day they hired me to the day they fired me, I served my clients consistently, thoroughly, with absolute excellency. If they hadn't fired me that's what I've be doing today. Joe Miller: And they don't want to fire you for having AIDS so in spite of your brilliance they make you look incompetent thus the mysterious is that what you're trying to tell me? Andrew Beckett: Correct, I was sabotaged.

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Librarian: Wouldn't you be more comfortable in a research room? Andrew Beckett: No. Would it make you more comfortable?

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Joe Miller: [approaches Andrew at the library] Who did you get? Andrew Beckett: What? Joe Miller: Did you find a lawyer? Andrew Beckett: I'm a lawyer.

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Joe Miller: The Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination against otherwise qualified handicapped persons who are able to perform the duties required by their employment. Although the ruling did not address the specific issue of HIV and AIDS discrimination... Andrew Beckett: Subsequent decisions have held that AIDS is protected as a handicap under law, not only because of the physical limitations it imposes, but because the prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precede... which precedes the actual physical one. Joe Miller: This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.

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Lisa Miller: You have a problem with gays, Joe. Joe Miller: Not especially. Lisa Miller: Yes, you do. How many gays do you know? Joe Miller: How many do you know? Lisa Miller: Lots. Joe Miller: Like who? Lisa Miller: Karen Berman, my Aunt Theresa, cousin Tommy who lives in Rochester, Eddie Meyers from the office, Stanley - the guy who's putting in our kitchen cabinets. Joe Miller: Aunt Theresa's gay? That beautiful, sensuous, voluptuous woman is a lesbian? Since when? Lisa Miller: Probably since she was born. Joe Miller: All right. Well, hey, I admit it, okay? I'm prejudiced. I don't like homosexuals. There. You got me. Lisa Miller: All right. Joe Miller: I mean, the way these guys do that - thing, don't they get confused? "Oh, I don't know. Is that yours? Is that mine?" You know, I don't want to be in bed with anybody who's stronger than me or who has more hair on their chest than I do. Now, you can call me old-fashioned, you can call me conservative. Just call me a man. Besides, I th

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