Disability Quotes
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
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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.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.
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It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
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Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
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Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.
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Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.
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The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
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Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
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The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
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My brother was told that he wouldn't walk, that he wouldn't be able to play drums, that he wouldn't be able to race a car - and he's done all those things. He's defied the odds, defied disability. I look at him and I'm so inspired, by his mentality and by how incredible the body and the mind are. There's really nothing you can't do. My brother has proved that.
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I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.
