Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
JIM VALVANOCancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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