Aimee Mullins Quotes
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.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
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Raven. Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal? Alexander - If he's with the right girl.
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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.
