#disease

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

#also #background #bit #cancer #die

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#alzheimer #dad #disease #family #had

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#any #before #beginning #being #could

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#adult stem cells #also #cells #certain #difficult

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it! ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#angry #burned #couple #did #disease

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

#dealing #death #difficult #difficult things #disease

The medicine increases the disease. ↗

— Virgil

#increases #medicine

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#come #different #different person #disease #everything

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#anger #anxiety #any #anytime #balance

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#been #cell #cell research #cure #diseases