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Aimee Mullins Quotes

A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'

Aimee Mullins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

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Back Results Said Done DNA Years

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

Jim Broadbent

Selfish Think Sometimes Top Capable

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

Anita Borg

Women People Own Track Keep Just

I want to get fitter. And yes, I'm learning hot yoga to get a bikini body. I don't believe one has to sport a size-zero figure to flaunt it. One just needs a fit, sexy and toned body.

Sonam Kapoor

Learning Believe Sexy Body Want Hot

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

Tom Riley

Way Everything Pay Through Anything

Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.

Michael Pollan

Money Feel Worth You Serve Your

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

Dominic Monaghan

Time Day Me Face Someone You

I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

Diego Klattenhoff

Good Bad Play Two Years Bad Guy

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

Life People Language Quiet Living

Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

Antoine Griezmann

Respect People Strong Say Nothing

There was one time I flagged every 'Brokeback Mountain' review on Netflix that was negative. I was, like, 'not helpful,' and I spent, like, an hour doing it, and I wrote a really serious review about it. It's hard for me not to get really sensitive. I don't brush things off like that very easily.

Perfume Genius

Time Mountain Me Negative Doing

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.'

Todd Rokita

Future Road Saying Generation Down

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

Richard Gere

Health Simple Diversity Animal Think