Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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