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.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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