Quotes by Aimee Mullins - Page 2

If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Legs
Normalcy
Aspired
Bone
Traded
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Home
Cell Phone
Cells
Function
Phones
Home Your Day
Cell
Cell Phones
Daily
Phone
Leave
Impacted
Important Part
Tool
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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 we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Celebrate
Full Potential
Glorious
Heartbreaking
Humanity
Within
Full
Disabilities
Makes
Strengths
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Beautiful
Heartbreaking
Humanity
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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.'
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Amputees
Asking
Disabled
Handicapped
Knees
Physically
Bilateral
Challenged
Describe
Journalists
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Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Behave
Curiosity
Differences
Frightened
Natural
Adult
Influences
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Amputees
Cerebral
Disability
Diverse
Issues
People
Me People Speak
Me People Know
Advocate
Arm
Group
Leg
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Age
Medical
Glasses
Hips
Life Age Your
Around
Assisted
Contacts
Device
Generation
Hip
Pacemaker
Point
Prosthetic
Replacement
Whether
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Girl
Bases
Player
Softball
Advantages
Aside
Base
Held
Meet
Overlook
Slide
Step
Wooden
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Likeable
Path
Successful
Successful People
Threatened
Me People Will
Confident
Path Me People
Followed
Similar
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Confidence
Belief
Disability
Thinking
Weakness
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Dream
People
Responsibility
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Easy
Responsibility
Surround
Life Dreams Time
Chase
No Time
Point
Shape
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If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Athlete
Components
Humour
Missing
Attentive
Broaden
Develop
Fast
Similarly
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My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Legs
Pairs
Pavement
Judge
Impractical
Piece
Pounding
Practical
Transform
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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. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Cerebral
Diverse
Fortunate
Groups
Life My Life Live
Arm
Life Live My Life
Leg
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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'?
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Body
Enhancement
Thinking
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I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life, that movie will be playing in a museum somewhere. I never could have expected that huge response.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Expected
Giving
Response
Speech
Life My Life Rest
Life Will My Life
Totally
Bank
Somewhere
Freaked
Museum
Suit
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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!
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Bond Girl
Components
Legs
Weapons
What If
Airport
Bond
Metal
Pull
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Inspiration
Motivation
Real
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Beautiful
Kissing
Sleep
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it's putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Beauty
Dance
Apartment
Minutes
Plenty
Secret
Water
Beauty Best Great
Confident
Besides
Record
Putting
Rocking
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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.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Jobs
Sports
Softball
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.
Aimee Mullins / Athlete
Sports
Motivation
Softball
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