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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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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.
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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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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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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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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 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 grew up in a Navy family.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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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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He seems like a nice charming guy. Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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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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You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
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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.