Cancer Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news is priceless.

  Jenna Morasca

  Fall, Fighting, Thinking

  "Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn Share Their Story of Love, Survivor and Battling Cancer". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. May 10, 2011.

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• When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

  Dawna Markova

  Team, Healing, Fighting

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press

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• Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Important, Looks, Disease

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• You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.

  Paul Davies

  Cells, Ideas, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.

  Jake Owen

  Father, People, Going Away

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• My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.

  Naomi Campbell

  Fighter, Mum, Breasts

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• I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Women, Health

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• Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope at St. Jude - a place where miracles can and do happen.

  Marlo Thomas

  Laughter, Children, Health

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• I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power of advanced mathematics; "You + God = Enough

  Zig Ziglar

  Opportunity, Journey, Different

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• One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.

  John Green

  Wise, Writing, Years

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• The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Success, Block

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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Smoking, Humanity, Doubt

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• It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks who deny those things. In the case of climate change, I think the debate is going the same way in that there is a strong consensus that it is a serious matter.

  Martin Rees

  Strong, Thinking, Smoking

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• I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer's probably in cannabis-who knows?

  Method Man

  Weed, Thinking, Alcohol

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• I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Years, Feelings

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• Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Idolatry

  Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.179, InterVarsity Press

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• I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

  Ron Perlman

  Heart, School, Kids

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

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• Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

  Norman Mailer

  Growth, Madness, Denied

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.254, Random House

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• Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.

  Amanda Bynes

  Hair, Patient, Feels

  "Amanda Bynes’s Most Offensive Tweet Yet Is a Simple Grammatical Mixup!". www.vanityfair.com. July 16, 2013.

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• You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Lying, People, Sick

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• I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

  Anjelica Huston

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

  Greg Proops

  Smoking, Inappropriate, Certain

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• A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Done

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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