Tourettes Quotes

• Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

  Dylan McDermott

  Compassion, Helping, Distraction

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• Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

  Dov Davidoff

  Life Is, Cases, Involuntary

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 16, 2011

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• I have Tourettes syndrome.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Syndromes

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

  Dash Mihok

  Believe, People, Trying

  "Actor: I hid Tourette's from Hollywood". Interview with Ben Tinker, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2013.

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• If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

  Tim Howard

  Different, Syndromes, Feels

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• Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Brain, Answers, World

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage

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• People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Mean, Night, Cry

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• I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

  James Durbin

  Who I Am, America, Aspergers

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• Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Insomnia, Race

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Order, Parent, Experts

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• I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

  Richard Ford

  Brain, Obsessive Compulsive, Disorder

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• I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

  Helena Bonham Carter

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• I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Ugly, Emotion

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• I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

  Dash Mihok

  Mother, Numbers, Scare

  "Actor: I hid Tourette's from Hollywood". Interview with Ben Tinker, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

  George Eads

  Thinking, People, Screw Ups

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

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• The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Important, Orchestra

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

  James Wolk

  Beautiful, Teacher, Drama

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• I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

  Kate Moss

  Snapshots, Want, Blink

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• Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes'.

  Lewis Black

  Politics, Nazi

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• ...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

  David Foster Wallace

  Seductive, Syndromes, Genuine

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.715, Hachette UK

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• Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

  Oliver Sacks

  Years, Two Year Olds, People

  Oliver Sacks (2007). “Vintage Sacks”, p.116, Vintage

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• You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Want, Prophet

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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