"Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute."

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Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com

Timothy Shriver

#Kids Quotes #Skills Quotes #People Quotes

“I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.”
“When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.”
“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”
“With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.”
“I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.”
“Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.”
“I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.
“I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.”

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