Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
AIMEE MULLINSI would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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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 Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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