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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Express Print Read Life
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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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Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Either Grow Keep Opportunity
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Tell Teach Explain Great
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgive Friend Easy Than
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Magic World Grow Sharp
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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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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Medical People Mental Health
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love Eye Mind Blind
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The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.

Bore Music Heart Long
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You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Find Will Stop Never
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Read Poem Laugh Cry
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Pressure Team Attack Point
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

Right Love First Line
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When you go to work, you want to have fun, because when you're having fun, you're not really working.

Fun Work Have Working
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