Cancer Quotes - Page 4

• This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

  Charlotte Ross

  Sister In Law, My Future, Breasts

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

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• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  Uri Geller

  War, Nuclear Missiles, Earth

  "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Interview to Holistic London Guide, www.urigeller.com. 1997.

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• Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Breasts, Wells, Right Now

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• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

  Andrew von Eschenbach

  Greatest Fear, America, Purpose

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• My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

  Scott Thompson

  Hilarity, Kind, All Kinds

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• A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

  Don Drysdale

  Baby, Cuffs, Faces

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• Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

  April Winchell

  Fun, Today, Aspect

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• But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Support, Survival

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Yale, Brain

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• I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Kids, Leukemia

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Unfair

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• You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage.

  Charlie Sheen

  Cures, Stage, Late

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.

  John Dean

  President, Would Be, Survivor

  "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 4, 1987.

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• I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

  Harold Pinter

  Pain, Arses, Literature

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

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• I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

  Marcia Wallace

  People, Oncologists, Hard

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• Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

  Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.

  Rain, Smoking, Doe

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• Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

  David Wilkerson

  Daughter, Mother, Survivor

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• Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

  Susan Sontag

  Disease, Patient, Lied

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Can't is the cancer of happening.

  Charlie Sheen

  Happenings

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• I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

  Grete Waitz

  Doctors, Survivor, Care

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Simple, Long, Diagnosis

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Anger, Fire

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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