Gail Devers Quotes
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.Gail Devers
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.
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Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
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When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.
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It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.
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There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers
