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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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I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say,

Struggle Responsibility Living Ignorant
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Unique Culture Single Mold
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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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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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I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

People Because Travel Show
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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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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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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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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.

Christmas Carol Five Auditioned
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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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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.

When Real Muscle Excited
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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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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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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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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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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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I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change Keep Intact Root
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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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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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You must always do what you feel is right.

Always Feel Right Must
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way

Choose Human Own Attitude
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Long Day Smile Everyone
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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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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'

Woman Sex Right Anymore
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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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The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Bottom Start Head Main
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Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Cope Way Life Make
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Freedom. Mind Gate Lock
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Crime Not Nut Consist
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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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