Alzheimer Quotes - Page 5

• I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

  Ray Romano

  Alzheimer's, Names, Giving

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• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Cancer, Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

  James Rebhorn

  Mother, Memories, Mean

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• If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

  Joanne Fluke

  Dad, Alzheimer's, Church

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.14, Kensington Books

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• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Alzheimer's, Tools

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• [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

  Tipu Aziz

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Research

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• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  Edward Boyden

  Motivation, Inspiration, Alzheimer's

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• People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Alzheimer's, People, Age

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• One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

  Jane Wagner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease.

  Ron Reagan

  Alzheimer's, People, Frustrated

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• Today is the best day I could ever have.

  Rick Dees

  Alzheimer's, Today

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• It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Games, People

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• People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

  Julianne Moore

  Alzheimer's, People, Cures

  "The Oscars". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Alzheimer's, Years

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• I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

  James Cromwell

  Memorial Day, War, Son

  "James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs.

  Seth Rogen

  Alzheimer's, Government, Silence

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• We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of course, what the doctors say is it's not Alzheimer's. You run into that Catch-22 all the time. They say, well, it was probably just a temporary premature dementia, and they write-off the recovery to preserve their ignorance.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Running, Writing, Recovery

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• If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other motor neuron diseases. It's a very exciting field of research. But I'd like to continue in drama, so it wouldn't be very smart of me if I blew this amazing opportunity with an inappropriate lifestyle.

  Freddie Stroma

  Smart, Drama, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Alzheimer's is a family disease...It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers...Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself.

  Seth Rogen

  Jobs, Kids, Alzheimer's

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

  Tony Curtis

  Alzheimer's, People, Disease

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• The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Best Things

  "'The best thing I ever did was stand up and say I have Alzheimer's': Terry Pratchett speaks to Fiona Phillips". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2012.

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• I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

  Tony Benn

  Alzheimer's, Feet, Speech

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• Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Heart, Eye

  "Ronald Reagan’s Daughter, Patti Davis, Releases Lesbian Novel", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.

  Bill Gates

  Alzheimer's, Innovation, Cost

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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