Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

Albert Einstein

For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosenabout them.

Sarah Addison Allen

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.

Tom Brokaw

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Natalie Portman

People will think I'm a neo-Nazi or a cancer victim or a lesbian.

One of the big concerns is if these stem cells express (produce) genes that can cause cancer. After implanting them into a patient, it would be cancer waiting to happen. You want to make sure that the cells you use for therapy are actually normal and are not in any way screwed up to start with.

No one should die of colon cancer; it is so curable if caught early.

One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.

Chumlee

My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.

Mike McCue

My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.

Harry Browne

From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

James Wolfe

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

Jared Diamond

The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

Janet Napolitano

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

Jane Wiedlin

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

Eric Topol

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

I'm always dealing with my own mortality. The only gift cancer gives you is time. You can plan and say goodbye.

Francis Collins

More than 300 genes have been implicated in the diabolical transformation of normal cells into cancer cells, and that has led to major insights into cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.

My grandmother passed away from cancer, so this is a great opportunity to honor her. You just don't want to forget people.

My father is a heart and cancer patient, so we had to get his medications from his room.

Carlos Gomez

My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done and not done. No hospitals, no invasive surgeries. He had a living will, which is like a narrative of your life that you get to finish. It was his legacy -- what he wanted to leave his family: emotionally, financially, spiritually.

Given the complicated interplay of events and factors that go into developing cancer, we shouldn't be surprised that one food doesn't give us a clear signal. We shouldn't expect it to be so simple.

From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving in the right direction.

I feel like I'm lucky that I had cancer ? and that they found it. If they had found it the next year, or the year after. ... Most of the time you hear about a situation like that, they have a couple of years left to live.

If one person decides to get checked for cancer and a life is saved because we met and they heard my story, then it's worth something.

Andie MacDowell

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

Carlos Mencia

I am a product. . . . I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

Al Gore

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

Charles Jencks

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

Bonnie Raitt

The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.

Bruce McCulloch

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Edmund Muskie

We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.