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.
AIMEE MULLINSSure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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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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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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