Cancer Quotes - Page 6

• My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

  John Cheever

  Mean, Cat, Eggs

  1982 On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth, 10 May.

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• Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lakes, Community, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Way, Extraordinary, Has Beens

  "People" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2006.

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• Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

  Yukio Mishima

  Imagination, Caught, Catastrophe

  Yukio Mishima, Cecilia Segawa Seigle (1974). “The temple of dawn”, Harvill Secker

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• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Kindness, Moving Forward

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

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• Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.

  Kate Moss

  Anorexia, Lung Cancer, Lungs

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

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• Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

  Will Smith

  Sad, Letting Go, Adversity

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Optimism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

  Herbie Mann

  Gay, Thinking, Community

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• Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, White, House

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• If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

  Eric Bentley

  Hope, Hands, Anticipation

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• It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

  Walter White

  Insightful, News, Diagnosis

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• One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

  Len Dawson

  Play, Reason, Quarterback

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• I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

  Barry Lyga

  Giving, Reactions, Allergic

  Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

  Gilbert Adair

  Needs, Disease, Facts

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

  Rue McClanahan

  Survivor, Breasts, Knows

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• I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

  Loni Anderson

  Disease, Involved, Lungs

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• Cancers of all types among women are increasing

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Type

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• Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

  Delta Goodrem

  People, Gone, Want

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• More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

  Sheryl Crow

  Possibility, Millions

  "Sheryl Crow undergoes cancer surgery, postpones tour". www.mtv.com. February 25, 2006.

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• As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

  Lindy Boggs

  Responsibility, Sea, People

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• If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mean, Priorities, President

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• Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

  Michael Milken

  Alzheimer's, Disease, Kidneys

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• Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Giving, Publicity

  "Mandela's son dies of AIDS at 54", www.cnn.com. January 7, 2005.

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• Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Lists, United States, Stories

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