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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.
Aimee Mullins
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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
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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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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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Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. 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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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. 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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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've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
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With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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