Cancer Quotes - Page 19

• Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Elderly, People, Disease

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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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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Food

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• Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Jobs, Differences, Work Out

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• I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

  Mary Lasker

  Heart, Way, Sin

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• Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Age, Rays, Viruses

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• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Way, Microscopes, Arise

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• Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

  Kris Carr

  Going Away, Life Going On, Goes On

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