"What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling."

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Source : "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 2013.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#Cancer Quotes #My Best Friend Quotes #Cost Quotes

“What you must understand about me is that Iâ€™m a deeply unhappy person.”
“With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile,”
“I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives”
“I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.”
“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”
“I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations”
“I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.”
“The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.”

Source : "Geraldo Defends his Jacko Interview". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2005.

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