I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINSI admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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’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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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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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.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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