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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.