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.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around 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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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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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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