Aimee Mullins Quotes (36 quotes)

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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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„I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through airport security, I set off the alarms. But when they realize why I'm beeping, they let me through. What if I had weapons in my legs? I could take one off and pull out an Uzi! Legs Galore - that would be me!“
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„In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'“
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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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„'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'“
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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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„True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.“
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„I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.“
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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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„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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„I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.“
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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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„It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.“
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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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„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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„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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„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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„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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„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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„I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.“
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Aimee Mullins
Author born: November 30, 1975
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Athlete

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