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Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.
Christopher Reeve
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Christopher Reeve
Age: 52 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 25
Died: 2004
Died: October 10
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
New York City
New York
Christopher D'Olier Reeve
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Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.
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America is better when all of us take care of all of us.
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Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.
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A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
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I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
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The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.
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there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it
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All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.
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Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.
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I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
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In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.
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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
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When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.
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If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.
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I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.
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I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.
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I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.
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I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.
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In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.
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I have never been disabled in my dreams.
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