I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
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Related We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we ... STELLA YOUNG It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes t... DICK DURBIN I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey... STELLA YOUNG Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. WARWICK DAVIS We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, w... STELLA YOUNG We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young... BARACK OBAMA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their ... MALORIE BLACKMAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And i... STELLA YOUNG Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respe... LEWIS B. SMEDES My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't preve... STEPHEN HAWKING As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantl... DANIEL H. WILSON We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our ocean... KEVIN BACON We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a pi... GIGI HADID Children who appear disabled at 2 or 3 are not necessarily doomed to a lifetime of disability. These... DR. SAROJ SAIGAL I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form a... THOMAS JANE We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume... NYLE DIMARCO God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by g... JOYCE MEYER I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than who... AIMEE MULLINS Just as butterflies natural ability to fly is disabled if marred by human fingers our spiritual wing... COLLEEN LAUKKA We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. Th... ELON MUSK The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou... WENDELL BERRY When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it... DAVID H. KOCH Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mi... JASON SILVA When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk ... TERI GARR Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs fo... JOHN LENNON It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's ... GERARD BUTLER We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b... PHILIP K. DICK One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our ... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their '... AIMEE MULLINS I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory ... JAMES CAMERON Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrif... BARRY BONDS Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it&... DUSTIN CLARE The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, ca... DAVID SUZUKI I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnie... KURT VONNEGUT I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because i... KAZUO ISHIGURO The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attit... STELLA YOUNG Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... CARLY POPE I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all... J. K. ROWLING If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... America's disabled veterans answered our country's call, and when their time in uniform is d... JOHN DELANEY We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without acce... JOSE MUJICA I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ... STEPHEN HARPER We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other... TOM HOLLANDER In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly ... STELLA YOUNG In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in ter... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying,... MAELLE GAVET President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expe... VALERIE JARRETT I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 m... STELLA YOUNG 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cu... FOSTER FRIESS I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it del... STEVEN RODNEY MCQUEEN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. T... JESSICA HAGEDORN I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured ... DAVID MCCANDLESS I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gen... HILARY SWANK We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other... BILLY GRAHAM The hyping of disabled athletes into superhuman status by Channel 4 only deepens our wounds, inflict... PENNY PEPPER It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tel... SHARON SALZBERG Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson ... AIMEE MULLINS It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a ye... PENN JILLETTE We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? W... GARY L. FRANCIONE As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will st... RAHM EMANUEL We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d... DANIEL KAHNEMAN I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and t... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ... MAYA ANGELOU When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually g... LEE PEARSON We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have... NICK HANAUER I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can... OSCAR PISTORIUS Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obviou... BRETT FAVRE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated b... BAT FOR LASHES The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibi... RICHARD POWERS I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We w... DAVE SITEK You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are en... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and poli... JANE FONDA That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in... KASSIE DEPAIVA As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym t... ABBY WAMBACH It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a ... WALEAD BESHTY Children who can walk, talk and chew gum are looked at more than children who are disabled. We want ... JACKIE HAYES We need a hell of lot more athletes than we've got now. I only hope more disabled people get involve... BRIAN MCKEEVER There is something ironic in prejudice against the disabled and their families, because their plight... ANDREW SOLOMON The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget th... CHARLES VEST People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experi... JUNOT DIAZ I was told by so many people that I wouldn't succeed because I was too different. Ironically, th... LINDSEY STIRLING It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconscio... GRETCHEN RUBIN It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much... TOM COLICCHIO I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before b... KEN BURNS We don't know the power that's within our own bodies. DAVE BRUBECK I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many wor... FRANS LANTING Because a review of the plain language of the ADA yields no statutory basis for distinguishing among... STANLEY MARCUS And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is t... MIRIAM MAKEBA We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at. EMMA CAULFIELD We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We ... STEVE JOBS
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YOUNG THUG You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and wh... YOUNG THUG It's like, boom! - I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made m... YOUNG THUG I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever. YOUNG THUG I don't do my own Instagram. YOUNG THUG Ninety percent of my clothes are women's. YOUNG THUG I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - ... YOUNG THUG When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem. YOUNG THUG I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes. YOUNG THUG I never ever paid attention to any election. YOUNG JEEZY I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else. YOUNG JEEZY I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary. YOUNG JEEZY A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. YOUNG JEEZY I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, ... YOUNG JEEZY People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand. YOUNG JEEZY Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people. YOUNG JEEZY I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life. YOUNG JEEZY When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se... YOUNG JEEZY I'm a motivational speaker. YOUNG JEEZY Anything that looks good makes you feel better. YOUNG JEEZY Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I... YOUNG JEEZY I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen ... YOUNG JEEZY All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it... YOUNG JEEZY I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it. YOUNG JEEZY As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an ... YOUNG JEEZY I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of... YOUNG JEEZY Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned. YOUNG JEEZY In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of. YOUNG JEEZY I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they shoul... YOUNG JEEZY When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. ... YOUNG JEEZY My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling. YOUNG JEEZY You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right. YOUNG JEEZY I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone. YOUNG BUCK Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it. YOUNG BUCK