In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
AIMEE MULLINSYou feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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