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show you how i'm from a bridge was built. with those the construction really you need to transport to reach that will help the cause of crimea least most of those you know while the good old more familiar with it a bit but please. so i walk into. my own body i have a good body. found in self in the public limelight he became his problems a spokesman for handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. one thing going. look.
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look a. lot better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. people get it wrong. they look at alvin lonnie thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my these are my hands too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous feet is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. oh wow what a thrill that's not what it is but i do think live. thanks. i thought and i was going to have to be a nine. i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had
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a lot of fun and i fancy i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for holes and you go skinny and that's what we did for entertainment. i have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but i couldn't get in the stupid. and i wanted the stupid grand one for a one night stand but that i'd never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my know why you when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not still pretty. for most of the miners getting behind the wheel of
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a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his equate to get behind the wheel and do up her seat. driving instructor to never have a shot tonight to say. somebody had gone to the next big test which. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so naturally it's not be driving we were transferred to most of my life and. get into college just because we were sharing. my parents they were the most
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practical people i think i've ever met in my entire life so when it came to learning how to drive. that was just practical that way you can get around on your own you're going to have nine people to take care of you don't have to worry about . taking a bus or use your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. anyway i just love driving what i love the different things but to do. what people don't consider the power of my mind and i my mind is very powerful tool and it get into it interjects all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i get really seriously and i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is peoples excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like. this doesn't make any sense to me. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms was all closely knit from for the sixers to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so
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much for to so much i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because i don't know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream mika went to prestigious film schools and apprenticed under the legendary german director rayner vernon fast binder before making a number of successful feature films but there was one prize job he wanted badly directing a big movie unfolded in mine and the head of german t.v. said no you can't have the job but you can make a documentary on. the to might and i said you know i you know i think that was income and i shouted at him i use the f. word very loudly and very often because i said i apply for the job you know you pay well and not the documentary filmmaker who gets your pate you know and that's so
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typical you know you give the disabled dolly the side job you know and then i went home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do a film about the little mite. and what do i know about the little might go. and she looked at me and said they go it's time to look the devil in these. i don't know what your lives are like sometimes life can really be rough on people i understand that i get it i've been in real life alvin law is a motivational speaker who's influenced audiences in north america and australia with his message of hope is especially to more than two million youngsters who heard his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited here you're helping kids and they need to have somebody come in and tell them that it's going to be ok but i get such tremendous joy out of doing it there is nothing in my life
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that makes you happier than speaking to kids nothing and the next time you're ready to give up or quit or back again well if it helps even a little bit remember the goofy looking guy that played the drums with his feet but remember the words i live by every day. there's no such word as can't. thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to where it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage and scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i carry my own luggage with
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straps i check into all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys are you go off thank you boss and my toes think you are now why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go. past all traffic around all the airports checking into hotels bad food drive in everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think about getting paid enough so i mean i can get on a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written out in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a mundane job that you five minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children in my shoes
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when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the white house anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of falls to me. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. funny come on nobody's perfect changed as. it changed how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors who are fighting for us really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some see. the energy change.
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the legal fund laws or how large your you know nobody's profit. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on that in. the east of china for me and for me to host this i know that i spent a million dollar trips. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't it. keep. us up. but thanks to get the money. in college eileen crown and fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely.
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although i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drawn to her you know her intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quickly. very quickly. i was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken the limit i was kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something else but also drily i did not know how i was going to carry a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound the alters sound technician zoomed in right away found foot
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one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote flight and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern starting mapping we knew that she would be ok. and i only know our best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be a ballet dancer because that's something their mother wanted to be and she was very . humorous.
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in a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thing . it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. have been saying the numbers mean something they've matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent for the first one is two years some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first target and bitcoin rose to twenty
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thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only fool but. i think hiding this catastrophe of falling unbridled the past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have the tele car a c. and yet passport rights into the e.u. to take those away and you have a cyclic greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the us a plane and drive into bankruptcy. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him come out of there with two arms. to hands and five little fingers on.
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i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feel and my son. to do it again. you would know. it all back. i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with them i was going to maybe get a call teach them to play frisbee impeachment or throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a carry viewers do. they don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you know arms to be there you don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have arms to realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears and i'm not sad i'm just.
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this big he was a little there and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings in what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice he's a great role model is a great person. and that's all you can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard louis being very well and kind to a christmas card and calm down and said alone i think the spark reignited if the best way i could describe it. he kissed me goodbye and busted flies.
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i was sort of floating on on a cloud. and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to impact our. and then he moved down in. the been together since. politico did up an understanding with each other it's really weird you know that we cannot act on then and you go i wouldn't know. what you don't about brownout right away what you pointed out you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know but the little mode if you do pick up on it or that it was i would think think you know it really really fascinating i where we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to the to be on. guard member thinking twenty years old divorced god
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a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduced himself to his future wife who was sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak and it actually believe you know it sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me. i was in the process of. considering making a final decision about whether and happy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees or for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melted. i have friends who tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days that was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on the finger and it's
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still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of thanks to frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still. write. your life is letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about it there's no option you know me. i don't stop traffic. you know you barry. really has. the. lows just like anybody else just keeps getting better and. it's getting. worse there's a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teacher second and then i had her and those three
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elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives . me in australia. with the british company that bought and still those were co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette row is suing the drugs manuf. the company wanted the case heard in germany where it's never successfully been so that the victorian supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that made phillida mod the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she wishes to have a dying court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. an agreement ours are defendants grants how have this never given never admit
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a thing never concede fight to the bitter end the still has a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the claim they settled with when you couldn't tell than post sent we had to get up and fight they'd stay there every day in court where the incredible damage they grow into adults didn't really know now the settlement amount was a multi-billion dollar some it was a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of off it really has dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement the two months later held a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because women surely this is first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. a dozen obviously just to fill
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out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are then never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they did pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a pledge it already comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he needs the longest was a size and just him and us adults of the in. by wednesday took that f.e.m.a. couldn't have gone into some of them choke we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. to me many of them will go to great intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in one hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets family's tosin
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a fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the purse strings and behave in a more generous fashion suppose i did not only want the money i want the rivera. i want the revenge you know they they kilt feist's thousand children yeah they made another five thousand children slice miserable they make the life of ten thousand parents all young they are responsible they should pay for. going cell no longer makes them in the mind and continue to deny most the little mite is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film.
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the original thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat laugh or say unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulations as a result a little my babies are still being. tragically there seems to be no limits to that's a little my disaster. yeah i am. i am i.
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am am i .
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seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings. to china judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of. a russian w.b. a champion of it. and a russian mob stuff. show you how. long the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction moving you need to transport. that will help the cause of crimea. pasta most of those you know won't go for more snow yet it abuts clear. folding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to. education. higher education is becoming just another product.
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so this not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born. i'm extremely high education the global economic war. i.
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