Aimee Mullins Quotes
'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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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Midi is my hobby.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
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When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
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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!'
