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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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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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 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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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