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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
Actor
Athlete
Athletics Competitor
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Instinct
Trust
Triumphs
Teach
Bullet
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Adapt
Stuff
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Everything
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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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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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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if' it's 'how.'
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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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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Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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