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.
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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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 I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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 hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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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 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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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