Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
AIMEE MULLINSUps and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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