Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSI admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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