In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
AIMEE MULLINSI like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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