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.
AIMEE MULLINSI would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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I’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.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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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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