Gabrielle Giffords Quotes
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I don't do negative things.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I don't have many friends.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
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I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
