Aimee Mullins Quotes, Amputees Quotes, Facts Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.

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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 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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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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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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The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

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

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