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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!'

~ Aimee Mullins

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A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'

~ Aimee Mullins

Anonymous Back Came Couple Couple Of Years Ago DNA Done Had Likely Most Results Said Sprinter Type Years Years Ago

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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

~ Aimee Mullins

About Body Having Life Lot My Life Prove Will

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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.

~ Aimee Mullins

Adversity Around Get Life Living Need Obstacle Order Our Part Resume

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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

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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

~ Aimee Mullins

Beauty Confidence Indicator Means Personality True

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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.

~ Aimee Mullins

Any Belief Collective Creep Far Force Incredibly Infectious Kernel May Momentum Oneself Self-Doubt Which

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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.

~ Aimee Mullins

Any Being Child Community Disabilities Disabled Ever Felt Grow Grow Up Identity Me Never Ownership Up

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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 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.

~ Aimee Mullins

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I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

~ Aimee Mullins

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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

Arm Been Cerebral Create Diverse Even Fortunate Groups Huge Know Leg Life Like Live My Life Speak Tried Wanted

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I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.

~ Aimee Mullins

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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.

~ Aimee Mullins

Because Before Came Capable Dinner Every Every Night Had Home Mum Night Paper Put Round Work Would

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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.

~ Aimee Mullins

Disabled Handicapped Hate Imply Less Myself See Than Way Whole Words You

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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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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

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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

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I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

~ Aimee Mullins

Because Being Better Dialogue Far Kids Like Looking Me Nothing Now Seen Stare Starting Than Them Way Worse You

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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.

~ Aimee Mullins

Able About Around Balanced Being Block Body Breathing Compromises Controlling Few Just Like Mind Pilates Run Stress Times

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