Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
AIMEE MULLINSI think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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’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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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