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.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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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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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 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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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