Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
AIMEE MULLINSSure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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