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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We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.
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I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
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I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.
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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
