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.
AIMEE MULLINSI admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I 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.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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