With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
AIMEE MULLINSPeople presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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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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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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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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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 like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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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 don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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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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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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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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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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