I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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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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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 hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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 would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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