Jeff Bauman Quotes

Jeff Bauman

Profession : Author

Birth : January 2, 1986

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

Jeff Bauman

I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.

Jeff Bauman

I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.

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In my eyes, there's heroes I look up to. People who saved me - my caretakers, people at Boston Medical Center. My surgeon. The people that pulled me off that ground, who pulled me out. Those are my heroes. The police. The paramedics. Those are the true heroes.

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I have so much work to do every day to get back to my normal life that I can't afford to be angry, even at the bombers. I can't keep looking backward.

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I realized I had to work on all aspects of my recovery, the spiritual, mental and physical.

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I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing my face next to Jake Gyllenhaal's.

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I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.

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Even now, a year later, people ask me about the Wheelchair Photo: what do I think about it? Does it bother me? The honest answer: I don't think about it. I glanced at the photo once, about a week after the bombing. I knew immediately I never wanted to look at it again.

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Everyone deals with loss.

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In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially.

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I want people to relate to my family, and to just getting through something - getting through loss in general.

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There's always gonna be some pain, I think, because my body's going to be like, 'Where are your lower legs?'

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Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.

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I'm doing great, and I just gotta keep going.

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I'm just glad I'm still here.

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I see my family every day and I'm starting my own family now. I'm very thankful and grateful and there's nothing but positivity and love in my life.

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I don't know, I'm just a weird person like that, I'm kind of sensitive and I feel bad for people that hurt other people 'cause it's just awful.

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I know exactly when my life changed: when I looked into the face of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was 2:48 P. M. on April 15, 2013 - one minute before the most high profile terrorist event on United States soil since September 11th - and he was standing right beside me.

Jeff Bauman

My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.

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