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  • I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

    Mean   Men   Catholic  
  • P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

    School   Kids   Speech  
  • But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

  • I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

    Basketball   Mean   Hair  
  • I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

    Kids   Speech   Littles  
    "Herschel Walker: 'Tell the World My Truth'" by Bob Woodruff, Jaime Hennessey and James Hill, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2008.
  • The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.

    Running   Character   Eye  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

    Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.9, Beard Books
  • I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

    Speech   Young   Therapy  
  • Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  • The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

    Loss   Afterlife   Legs  
  • I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  • No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

    "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

    "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.
  • Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

  • I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

    Tired   Long   Speech  
  • When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

    Kings   Speech   Kind  
    "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.
  • Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 72, 1799.
  • There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

    Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing
  • When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

    New York   Cities   Spain  
  • There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

  • The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

    Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
  • I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

    Class   Acting   Actors  
    "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.
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