Aimee Mullins Quotes

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• Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

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  Inspirational, Change, Adversity

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• The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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  Spirit, Disability, Crushed

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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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  Adversity, Order, Needs

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• Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

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  Life Is

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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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  Mother, Perfect, Legs

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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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  Adversity, Responsibility, Care

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• It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

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  Creativity, Creative, Quality

  "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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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...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Humanity, Heartbreaking

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• 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. 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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  Dream, Responsibility, People

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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. 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. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

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  Softball, Sports, Jobs

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• People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

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  Struggle, People, Insecurity

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' 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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  Thinking, Weakness, Belief

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• 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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  Self, Doubt, May

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• I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' 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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  Amputees, Asking, Knees

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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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  Mean, Self, Personality

  "L’Oreal Announces New Ambassador: Aimee Mullins". www.hollywoodnews.com. February 20, 2011.

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• Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

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  Funny, Beauty, Hilarious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

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  Inner Beauty, True Beauty

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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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. 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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  Thinking, Body, Enhancement

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• 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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  Hate, Way, Disabled

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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. 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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  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

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  Giving Up, Get Better, Roller Coaster

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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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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  Success, Sports, Athlete

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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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  Body, Life Is, Prove

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• Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

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  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

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  Attitude, Men, Mad

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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