I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINSYou feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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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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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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