Aimee Mullins Quotes
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.
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Go for broke with what you believe and what you think is funny and what you're good at.
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
