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I've got a speech impediment.
I did have a speech impediment.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.
The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the world.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.
A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
If we don't do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it's going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.
When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
Had I not gone through the struggles and the obstacles I had, I would not be as strong as I am today. I believe those impediments have forged, shaped, and strengthened my character.
I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person. Most of the impediments or solutions are state-driven, not federally driven.
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.
The belief that the law will never 'catch up' to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.