Disease Quotes - Page 35

• Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

  Ann Romney

  Heart, Differences, People

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• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  Andy Rooney

  Respect, Government, Perfect

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• Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Hips, Fantasy

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• Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

  Dan Savage

  School, Life Is, Oblivion

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, Heart, Who We Are

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• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  Haile Selassie

  Rain, Fall, Ignorance

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

  Maria Shriver

  Alzheimer's, Parent, Matter

  "Alzheimer’s: A Baby Boomer Epidemic" by Maria Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, Powerful, Heart

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• My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

  Manmohan Singh

  Ignorance, Priorities, India

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• Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

  Arlen Specter

  Cancer, Believe, Heart

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• If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Fighting, Two, Magic

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• I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

  Mattie Stepanek

  Sibling, Thinking, Hard Life

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• Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

  Elaine Stritch

  Diabetes

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• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

  David Suzuki

  Cancer, Moving, Heart

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• Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

  Alison Sweeney

  Children, Believe, Heart

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• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  Taylor Swift

  Tired, Long, People

  "Taylor Swift Tapes VH1 'Storytellers,' Lifts Curtain on New Songs from 'Red'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Successful, Conceited

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• Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Love, Fall, Mean

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• As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Commitment, Fighting, Doctors

  "What You Don’t Know About Cancer — Hope on the Horizon" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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• I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Oil, Sweden

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• I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Years, People

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Spiritual, Jobs, Mean

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

  James D. Watson

  Essence, Bipolar, Levels

  "Watson retires". Prof. James D. Watson's statement on blacks and whites just before his retirement from the post of Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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