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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.

Aimee Mullins

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
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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Admire Athlete Day Excellent Most Necessary Particular People Success Wonderful
Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Children Come Day First Some World
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
I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
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
You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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Daily Day Function Having Impact Important Part
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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Around Believe Continual Running Sorry Sunshine Want
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
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
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
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Advocate Disability Human Interest Issue
If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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Apartment Confident Dance Feel Great Kissing Make Record Rocking Someone
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
I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Believe Body Confidence Part Sexy
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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Athlete Defeat Elation Emotion Experience Glory Sport Success Teamwork Triumph

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