The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
AIMEE MULLINSI have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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