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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:

Aimee Mullins

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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Confront Consistent Definition Describe Disability Real Thinking Truthfully
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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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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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Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Amputee Asking Challenge Disable Handicap Journalist Knee Physical
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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Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Everything Mean Model
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Advocate Disability Human Interest Issue
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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Beauty Body Confidence Funny Hilarious Part Sexiest Sexy Woman
Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Belted Coaster Constant Down Life Roller Thousand Time Up
It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Alleviating Balance Breathing Controlling Stress
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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Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
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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Advocate Amputee Disability Human Interest Issue People
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Body Life Lot Prove
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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Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
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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Adapt All Bullet Everything Instant Point See Stuff Triumph
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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Creep Doubt Generate Incredibly Infectious May Momentum Outweight Self

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