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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Nothing is more incorrect than the mistaken idea that a decades-old chronic disease can be healed through a very long fast, or a radically extended, strict fruit diet.
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Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.
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The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.
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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
