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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

Aimee Mullins

I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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Arena Athlete Beautiful Beyond Capability Complete Excel Human Normal Power Sport Success
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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Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Beautiful Childhood Confident Feel Film Watch
It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Alleviating Balance Breathing Controlling Stress
I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Advocate Disability Human Interest Issue
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Adapt All Bullet Everything Instant Point See Stuff Triumph
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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Cell Feel Home Impact Leave People Phone Tool
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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Awful Family Given Leg Mode More Mother Nature Perfect
And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Certainly Come Enough Evolve Impact Language Technology
Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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Body Disable Enhancement Hollywood Thinking
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Body Call Celebrity Disabled More
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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Advantage Bring Girl Learn Overlook Player Softball

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