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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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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
Actor
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
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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, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
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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 had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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