I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.
It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.
Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.
Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.
A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.
As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.
I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.
I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.
I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.
It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?
If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.
When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.
The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.
Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
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