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I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.
I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.
Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.
I firmly believe that everybody in America needs a safe place to walk or to wheelchair roll.
I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.
Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
I got up from the wheelchair thanks to natural products like tulsi, aloe vera, kali mirch, and awla.
I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
There is a good chance that, at 60, I will be in a wheelchair, but hey, I signed up for that. I know that.
I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.
My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.
Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.
My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.
I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.
If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'
I was bullied in high school. I would go through the hallways and be pointed at and laughed at because I was the new kid in a wheelchair.
I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
Who says men don't cry? I used to sob like a baby as I was forced to move around in a wheelchair for two months after twin surgeries on my toes.
Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.
I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.
It's nice to have more than one little one because then you'll have - while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you.
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.
I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.
You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.
My feet are giving out on me. But I have a wheelchair that folds out on my tour bus. I've also got this little tricycle, so if I want to go someplace, I get those out.
If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.
The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?
I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'