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 MULLINSAdversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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