I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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 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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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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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 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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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