If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
AIMEE MULLINSIn sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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