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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Time Worst Storm Spring
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Better Life Thing Purpose
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My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

Drink Mirror Front Watch
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Independent Person Own Lady
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Marry Good Happy Become
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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Road Success Person Always
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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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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Think Past Bring Many
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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 may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.

Self esteem Cut Physical Impairment
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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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People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Always People Music Been
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Time Certain Succeed Weakness
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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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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Dark Mind Once Again
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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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Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.
Writing Videos Medium
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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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I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.

Impact People Naked Astounding
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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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If it weren't for the fact that all of us are slightly abnormal there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Fact Separate Point Abnormal
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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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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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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wisdom Become Depend Believe
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

Famous Could Remember Long
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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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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Love Bread Sit Stone
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

Got For Cerebral Deal
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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 parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

Instilled Parents Sense Condition
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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 think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

Taste Key Done Good
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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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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Think Come Way Being
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Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.

Race Beautiful Young Hope
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Endurance Fortune Come Bad
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Every idea that comes to mind I execute, or I look for outlets to put out ideas.

Idea Come Mind Look
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Crime Not Nut Consist
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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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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.

Else Eye Way See
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