Aimee Mullins Quotes

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 have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Long
  • Want
  • Body

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Government
  • Never

• Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Art
  • Race
  • Bike

• I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Always
  • Frustration
  • Encouraging

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

  

  Wayne White
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Risk

• Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Night
  • Fighting
  • Corruption

• When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Help
  • Party
  • Moving

• America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Today

• The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • You
  • Relationship

• You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • You
  • Best

• We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

  

  Bashar al-Assad

• You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

  

  Naomi Wolf

• To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death
  • Die
  • Stupid

• The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • World
  • Team
  • Focus

• Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.

  

  John Delaney
  • Long
  • Live
  • Military

• There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Joy

• If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.

  

  Norman Rockwell
  • Public
  • Dislike
  • Post

• 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