Cancer Quotes - Page 15

• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Weather, Space, World

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• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  Lance Armstrong

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Avid

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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• My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

  Kathy Acker

  Way, Beats, Pathology

  "The Gift of Disease". Essay by Kathy Acker, The Guardian, January 18, 1997.

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• I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Heart

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• One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

  Jennifer Beals

  Selling Products, Lovely, Goes On

  "Jennifer Beals Speaks Out Against 'Pinkwashing'". www.nbcwashington.com. November 01, 2011.

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• There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.

  Anne Enright

  Mind, Littles, Tiny

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• Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Commitment, Blue

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.

  Lance Armstrong

  Diagnosis, Fighter, Fierce

  "Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey: the transcript". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

  Eva LaRue

  Giving Up, Recovery, Reality

  Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.

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• To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Government, Promise

  "Of Pharaohs and Firearms". Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Website, jpfo.org. 2012.

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• It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Burning, World, Today

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, Dying, Too Late

  "Timeless Identity". lesswrong.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

  Jonathan Alter

  Modern Life, Littles, Vivid

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.

  Traci Lords

  Squash, Hatred

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• Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Mother, Spending, Has Beens

  "Trash". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2013.

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Recovery, Night, Bed

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Knowing, People, Majority

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

  Alan Hirsch

  Support, Community, Groups

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.117, Baker Books

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• When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Cells, Creative, Young

  Blog post, August 29, 2007.

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• I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.

  Marisa Miller

  Stupid, Let It Go, Would Be

  "Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel Make Maxim's Hot List". people.com. May 14, 2008.

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• People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.

  Lance Armstrong

  Men, Talking, Years

  "The Wired Diares 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

  Alan Perlis

  Sugar, Causes, Programming

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Stupid, Talking

  "Kim Kardashian: my life as a brand" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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