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 MULLINSTruthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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