Cancer Quotes

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  Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  Jim Valvano

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

  Joel Siegel

  Mean, Sweat, Focus

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• In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

  Grete Waitz

  Fitness, Stay Strong, Exercise

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• I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Book by Steven Covey, 1989.

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• During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

  Melissa Bank

  Inspirational, Distance, Taken

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• Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Lines, Up And Down, Straight Lines

  "Elizabeth Edwards: John 'made one mistake'" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.

  Zach Braff

  Laughing, Tears, Patient

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• It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

  Marcel Proust

  Fitness, Knowledge, Voyages Of Discovery

  Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

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• Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

  Michael Douglas

  Feet, Knees, Inspirational Cancer

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• That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

  John Green

  People, Disease, Sometimes

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  Harold Pinter

  Death, Cells, Nurse

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

  James Randi

  Example, Said, Throat

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• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House

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• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Michael N. Castle

  Second Chance, Survivor, Way

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• I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Intention, Deny

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• I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

  Kathy Griffin

  Apologizing, Chemotherapy, Heard

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• Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

  James Larkin

  Cutting, Class, Humanity

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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• The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

  George McGovern

  War, Political, Soul

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• Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer Survivor, Illness, Bores

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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• I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Government, Civilization

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Fighting, Parent, Turning 30

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• But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

  Herbie Mann

  Mean, People, Negative

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• When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

  Herbie Mann

  Important, Looks, Done

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• Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Children, Numbers

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• Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

  Steve Ballmer

  Intellectual, Linux, Property

  "Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times". Interview with Dave Newbart, web.archive.org. June 1, 2001.

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