Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
AIMEE MULLINSWe all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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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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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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