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" Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. "

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" I'm concerned about how accessible guns are. "

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" I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound. "

" If you don't ask, you don't get. "

" I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens. "

" Time is long but life is short. "

" For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again. "

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" I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it. "

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" Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that. "

" Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. "

" I do believe in women. I really do. "

" Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. "

" I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life. "

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" The right to bear arms? What about the right to live? "

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" What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. "

" This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better. "

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