“Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.”
Weapons of Self Destruction (2010)
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“By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?”
Alesha Dixon cited in Dixon tipped for Strictly success http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7156420.stm at bbc.co.uk, 22 December, 2007: Referring bookmakers favourite to win BBC One's ballroom show Strictly Come Dancing.

“I'm like the legs of a paraplegic really? Cuz I'm still part of you even if you cant feel me.”
"Death March:
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)
That Sort of Bear.
Source: The Tao of Pooh (1982)

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Lea Michele: From Gleek to Do-Gooder,” interview with Shape (July 2012) http://www.shape.com/celebrities/interviews/lea-michele-gleek-do-gooder.
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 3, Tools of Normative Analysis, p. 42

“One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.”
Angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaa7I44gkgc
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
R.S. Lynd (1939) Knowledge of What? p. 125-6, cited in Karl William Kapp (1976), The nature and significance of institutional economics http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6435.1976.tb01971.x/abstract. in: Kyklos, Vol 29/2, Jan 1976, p. 209