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.
AIMEE MULLINSI don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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’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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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