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" This country is pretty amazing. "

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" I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life. "

" I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could. "

" Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had. "

" My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts. "

" I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time. "

" My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition. "

" Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all. "

" My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people. "

" I'm down for adventure and up for anything. "

" I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that. "

" My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it. "

" My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow. "

" 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. "

" Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life. "

" My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things. "

" The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself. "

" I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible. "

" When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake. "

" There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since. "

" People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.' "

" I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type. "

" For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got. "

" When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat. "

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" New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know. "

" When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal. "

" My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes. "

" 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. "

" Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place. "