Aimee Mullins Quotes
I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
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There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church - which is, of course, quite a different thing.
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I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
