The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINSBelief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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