I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSI have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to 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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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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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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