Disability Quotes - Page 10

• There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Suffering

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• All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

  William S. Burroughs

  Honesty, Pain, Voice

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

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• I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

  Bruce Jenner

  School, Helping, Problem

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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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• In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Cutting, House, Pay

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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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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• A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

  Warren Mundine

  Government, People, Helping

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• I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

  Scoot McNairy

  Eye, Dyslexia, Visuals

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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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 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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• 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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• There are things that I really find important, and that we need to remind ourselves of. When you think about disability, do you really think about it? Someone who's a full-time trainer or a boxer, someone who's got a major disability, but who doesn't let that get in his way, that's a really good message for someone who is able-bodied. It can make them think, 'Wow, I suppose I could be doing better for myself.'

  Idris Elba

  Thinking, Important

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

  Jimmy Carr

  Race, Different, World

  "Jimmy Carr defended offensive routines days before Down's Syndrome joke". www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2011.

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• I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

  Kevin Sorbo

  People, Understanding, Suffering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Thinking, Legs, Strange

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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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• There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

  Kristoffer Polaha

  People, Levels, Extraordinary

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.

  Simi Linton

  War, Hitchhiking, Demonstration

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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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• 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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• 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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• People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

  Aimee Mullins

  Struggle, People, Insecurity

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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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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