Aimee Mullins Quotes
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
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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Malala Yousafzai
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Earl Weaver
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
Sam Walton
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E. L. Doctorow
I got no hate in me.
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Pardis Sabeti
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Carlos Mesa
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon
Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
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Zephyr Teachout
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Margot Robbie
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Dawn Fraser
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Billy Dee Williams
If you can't handle some of the basic stuff that's become a problem in the workforce today, then you don't belong in the workforce.
Donald Trump, Jr.
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
