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.
AIMEE MULLINSI have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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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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