The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINSTrue beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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 haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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