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To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.

My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.

Amy Purdy

I like moving, challenging myself.

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I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.

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I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.

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I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

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If you believe that you can't do something, then you're not going to do it. If you believe you can, and you're willing to put in the effort and figure out a way to do it, then the majority of the time, you can.

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There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

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I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.

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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

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I can't really say I miss my toes.

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For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

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I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

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Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

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I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

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My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

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Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.

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Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There's benefits.

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After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

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If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.

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I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.

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The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.

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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.

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Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.

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My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

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I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?

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My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.

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I'm very grateful that I've had the opportunities I've had.

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I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

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It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

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I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

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I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.

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You don't have to be positive all the time.

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My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.

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At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.

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It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

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We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

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