Cancer Quotes - Page 2

• The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Get Well, Heart

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• I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

  Mel Gibson

  Spiritual, Cancer Survivor, Happens

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Heart, Holiday, Fighting

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• We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

  Jerry Doyle

  Childhood, Enemy, Today

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  Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

  Alex Karras

  Strength, Fitness, Inspirational Sports

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

  Cindy Crawford

  Makeup, Thinking, Rockets

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• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  Warren Beatty

  Fun, Cancer Survivor, Cures

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

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• My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

  Joyce Maynard

  Jobs, Writing, Doctors

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• We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Fighting

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Gratitude

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

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• When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

  Norm MacDonald

  Guy, Battle, Courageous

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  Dan Rather

  Sympathy, Courage, Grief

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Friendship, Mom, Grandma

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

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• I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stars, Powerful, Rocks

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• My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

  Jane Pauley

  Medicine, Goal, Television

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• Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

  John Simon

  Stress, Cells, Oxygen

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• Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

  Kylie Minogue

  Zero, People, Feelings

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• If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Vaccines, Space, Aids

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

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• Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show.

  Bill Maher

  Reality, Doctors, Ideas

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• Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

  Linus Pauling

  Health, Organization, People

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• I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Lucky, Persons, Has Beens

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• Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside.

  Gilda Radner

  People, Important, Want

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• Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Husband, Order, Stills

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