True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
AIMEE MULLINSYou know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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