Cancer Quotes

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  Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  Jim Valvano

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Health, May, Cows

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• I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

  Holly Golightly

  Heart

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• More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

  Joseph P. Kennedy

  Jealousy, Men, Dies

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• I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

  Jon Lester

  Cancer Free, Right Now

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• An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Inspirational, Survival, Doe

  Terry Tempest Williams (1991). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, Vintage

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

  Petrarch

  Friendship, Cancer Survivor, Suspicion

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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Running, Smoking, Radiation

  Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, 35, July 19, 1961.

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• All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Unique, Way

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• Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

  Dave Pelzer

  Hate, Cells, Spread

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• Cancer' is such a frightening word.

  Kris Carr

  Frightening

  Kris Carr (2007). “Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

  Eva Vertes

  Important, Prevention, Problem

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• What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

  Joel Siegel

  Focus, Important, Doe

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Survival, Unimportant, Getting Old

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• Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

  Terry Fox

  Running, Health, People

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• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  Patrick Swayze

  Children, Want, Posters

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• I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

  Delta Goodrem

  Innocence, Lost, Feels

  "I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Challenges

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

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• Cancer is an emotional disease.

  Marina Abramovic

  Emotional, Disease

  "Film Explores Marina Abramovic's Longest Work, 'The Artist Is Present' (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

  Kris Carr

  May, Remission, Unhealthy Relationships

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

  David R. Brower

  Dream, Men, Dna

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• I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Book by Steven Covey, 1989.

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• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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