The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINSIf left to their own devices a child will achieve.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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