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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most Listen Intent Reply
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Great Settle Heart Matter
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

Falling Love Girlfriend Dating
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CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

Struggle Unique Positive Talent's
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like,

Mother Children Book Work
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
Attitude Challenge Yourself Good
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say,

Moral Include Task World
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What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Religion Media Portrays Weaponize
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Feel Shade Feel Experience
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

Candle Roof Light Gospel
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Halfway Believe Can There
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Love Reject Share Truth
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Know Define Ask Act
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

Future Part Journey Sign
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A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Attitude Bless Talent Heart
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Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

Live Life Never Youth
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I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

People Tools Help Guide
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The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

Mistake People Important Comfortable
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

Couple Long Road trips Hassle
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

Accessible Experience Traveling Abroad
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Demon Disability Personal Sabotage
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Want Way Disability Call
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

Topic Human Hope Concrete
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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The Internet is crazy, and I love it!
Internet The Crazy Love
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.

Plan About More Paranoid
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

Myself Sweeter Play Dumber
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Often Art All Sometime
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.

Magical Basically Disney World
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The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

World Standard High Fierce
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Hard Restrict Enjoy Work
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

Videos Childhood Great Family
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Figure Natural Same Rate
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Chance Notion Lead Overcome
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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

State Born Freedom Assume
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

Idea Story Noah Like
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Slow Break Progress Natural
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When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

School Language Friend Start
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Easy Faith Winner Discipline
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Happen Week Decade Where
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Promise Fulfill Fool Understand
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Life Rest Impress Keep
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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Fame Think Pay Work
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Camp Love Court Rule
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Raise Voice Afraid Truth
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