Disability Quotes - Page 10

• I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

  Chris Burke

  Play, People, Television

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• The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

  Gordon Smith

  School, Opportunity, Giving

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• Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Past, People, Good Marriage

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• My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

  Rick Hansen

  Perception, Negative, Use

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• There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

  Sharron Angle

  Age, Purpose, Matter

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• My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

  Stella Young

  Use, Environment, Wheelchairs

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• Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fun, Everyday, Trying

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• It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Fun, Writing, Dry Up

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• I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

  Lauren Potter

  Independent, People, Community

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

  Richard Ford

  Book, People, Literature

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Couple, Cancer

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

  Carson Kressley

  Gay, Rights, Color

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Trials

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• I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?

  Aimee Mullins

  Thinking, Body, Enhancement

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• There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

  Jill Stein

  Vaccines, Developmental Disabilities, Links

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

  Stevie Wonder

  People, World, Continuation

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

  Christopher Reeve

  Way, Living My Life, I Live My Life

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• I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!

  Lauren Potter

  People, Intellectual, Important

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• I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.

  Lauren Potter

  Hurt, Mean, People

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• Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Creating, Ordinary

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• We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.

  Melinda Gates

  Jobs, Numbers, United States

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not considered normative. This is why people are accused to have transgender fetishes and fat fetishes and disability fetishes, but never cisgender fetishes, thin fetishes or able-bodied fetishes. Even in cases in which the person in question exclusively partners with these latter groups.

  Julia Serano

  People, Fake, Groups

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• I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

  Channing Tatum

  School, Focus, Drug

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• One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Believe, Giving

  Edmund Wilson (1997). “The Edmund Wilson Reader”

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