I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
AIMEE MULLINSThe best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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.
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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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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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