Skins Quotes

• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Strong, Years, Law

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• There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Saving, Bad People

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• God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  White, Soul, Black

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.423, Library of America

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

  Ron White

  Say Anything, Want, Penetrate

  Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

  Emma Donoghue

  Sometimes, Shed

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• We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

  Patti Smith

  Shed

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• Under the skin, intense fires burn.

  Charles de Lint

  Fire, Spirituality, Intense

  Charles de Lint (2001). “Forests of the Heart”, p.67, Macmillan

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• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Smart, People, Interesting

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• Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

  Morgan Freeman

  Joy, Finding Yourself, Findings

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Heart, Soul

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• Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Teenage, Teenage Life, Problem

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?” “It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,” I say. “It's meant to be pretty,” whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fashion, Thinking, Color

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• If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

  Anish Kapoor

  Talking, Sculpture, Scales

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• We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

  Joe Chung

  Blind, Deeper

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• And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Joy, Skin Deep

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.148

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• My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

  Ethel Merman

  Running, Brother, Careers

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Clever, Lust, Doe

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• Now you wear your skin like iron

  Townes Van Zandt

  Iron

  Song: Pancho and Lefty f Freddy Fender

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• I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dark, Resistance, Skinny

  "The Funny Side of Love". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

  Nicole Richie

  Pale Skin, Looks, Green

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• The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Sheep, Political

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• What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

  August Strindberg

  Writing, Men, Fellow Man

  August Strindberg (1969). “The Cloister”

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• After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Disaster, Bits

  Esquire Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. May 7, 2010.

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