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We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.

I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.

The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.

I have a reputation for being pretty much of a wild man.

My career, I think, indicates I'm not afraid of anything.

Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.

Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

In third or fourth grade, I loved to sign stories and monologues.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.