Kim Peek quotes

Kim Peek quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You don't have to have a disability to be different.”
-- Kim Peek

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“Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care... be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!”
-- Kim Peek

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“It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz”
“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”
“In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.”
“I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.”
“In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.”
“Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.”
“There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.”
“I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.”
“I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.”
“When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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