With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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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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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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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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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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