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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.

Aimee Mullins

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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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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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Cell Feel Home Impact Leave People Phone Tool
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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Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Body Life Lot Prove
I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
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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Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Belief Disability Everyone Feel Something Thinking Weakness
Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Happiness Life Living Own Rule
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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Different Every Factor Race Softball Sports Job Success Time Wining
If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Achieve Children Device Left Own
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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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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Beauty Body Confidence Funny Hilarious Part Sexiest Sexy Woman
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Adapt All Bullet Everything Instant Point See Stuff Triumph
I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Around Disability Evolution Feel Lived Regard Some
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Advocate Disability Human Interest Issue

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