A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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 sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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