Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
AIMEE MULLINSI’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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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