If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
AIMEE MULLINSI’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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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