Melissa Etheridge Quotes

I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

Melissa Etheridge

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• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Cancer
  • Will
  • Smoking

• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Day
  • Cancer

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Gift

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Dad
  • Cancer
  • Uncle

• The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Best
  • Awesome
  • Gift

• Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • Human

• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Love
  • Best
  • Sweet

• Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Water
  • Voice

• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Man
  • Question
  • Human

• Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Men
  • Health

• Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Cancer
  • Show
  • Bigger

• On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Candy

• Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Imperialism

• Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Bad

• I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

  

  Arda Turan
  • Time
  • Football
  • Liked

• Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

  

  Paul Davies
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Design

• I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Cancer
  • Gift