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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

Aimee Mullins

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.
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Going Heroine Human Interest Interview Refuse Sport Story Tragic
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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Athlete Defeat Elation Emotion Experience Glory Sport Success Teamwork Triumph
I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
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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Awful Family Given Leg Mode More Mother Nature Perfect
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Everything Mean Model
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.
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Confront Consistent Definition Describe Disability Real Thinking Truthfully
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Beautiful Childhood Confident Feel Film Watch
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Affirmation Beauty Confidence Deep Indicator Mean Personality Self Skin True
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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Disable Double Fact Make Objective Opinion Subjective
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Body Life Lot Prove
And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Certainly Come Enough Evolve Impact Language Technology
I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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Creep Doubt Generate Incredibly Infectious May Momentum Outweight Self
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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Beautiful Besides Kissing Out Sleep Water
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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