Skins Quotes - Page 16

• There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

  Benjamin Wiker

  Book, Men, Ideas

  Benjamin Wiker (2008). “10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

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• In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already

  John Corbett

  Jobs, Nice, Successful

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• There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

  Tom Waits

  Girl, Mean, Doe

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• Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream - I think it’s fantastic.  The same girl has been doing my make-up for 12 years and she says my skin’s never looked so good.

  Gaby Roslin

  Girl, Marine, Thinking

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• I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed

  Carnie Wilson

  Excess, Needed

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• Liposuction isn't an option, because I don't have any fat under my skin. The solution? ReFirme, which is painless

  Carnie Wilson

  Fats, Solutions, Painless

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• People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

  Janet Jackson

  Hurt, People, Rhinoceros

  "Janet Jackson Takes Control" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

  Daniel Inouye

  Color, Matter, Americanism

  "Sen. Daniel Inouye On Pearl Harbor, After 70 Years". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Dirty, Reflection, Knights

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Jobs, War, Men

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• There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Skin Color, Self

  George W. Bush's Remarks with Prime Minister Martin of Canada in a Press Availability, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 30, 2004.

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

  Janet Morris

  God, Drinking, Blue

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• Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Hair, Color

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• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

  Edward Abbey

  Way, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, Beauty Is Skin Deep

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Needs, Tough, Public Life

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• I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

  Lorde

  Real, Two, Perfect

  Lorde @lorde, twitter.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

  Tim Howard

  Animal, Fur, Looks

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• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

  Malcolm X

  Eye, Past, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike

  Clarence Thomas

  Kings, Mean, Thinking

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• When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

  Clarence Thomas

  Kids, Color, Ideas

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• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Sexy, Fun, Thinking

  "How Candice Swanepoel is Spending Valentine's Day". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Poison, Use, Synthetic

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• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  Karlie Kloss

  Thick Skin, Grows, Thick

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