Cerebral Palsy Quotes

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Son, Talking, Years

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

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• La única discapacidad en la vida es una mala actitud.

  Scott Hamilton

  Deportesinspiradores, positivos y motivadores

  Scott Hamilton (2009). "The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)", p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc.

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• As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

  Greg Walloch

  Personas, Percepción, Superación

  "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, Disability, Interest

  "'No pareces discapacitado'". Entrevista con Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. 9 de marzo de 2010.

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• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Madre, Hijos, Hogar

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• You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

  Geri Jewell

  Funny, Eyebrows, Ears

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, People, Amputees

  "'No pareces discapacitado'". Entrevista con Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. 9 de marzo de 2010.

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• Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Mother, Children, Curves

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2004.

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• I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."

  Zach Anner

  Foundation, Campaigns, Records

  Fuente: abilitymagazine.com

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• My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

  Tracy Morgan

  Madre, Hermano, Padre

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• You know how some people have gay-dar? I have fat-dar. I can automatically tell if you're fat or not. And I also have cerebral-palsy-dar.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Divertido, Humor, Gay

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• I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Father, Moving

  "What I see in the mirror" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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