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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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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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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.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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 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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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