Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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 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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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 know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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