The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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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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