Skins Quotes - Page 19

• You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Attitude, Genetics, Comfortable

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• I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

  Ruby Wax

  Wrinkles, Years, Might

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• We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Thinking, Bags, Connected

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• Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

  Elena Ferrante

  Pain, Joy, Pulse

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.164, Penguin

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• Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.

  Waris Dirie

  Pain, Eye, Cutting

  "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

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• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Hair, White, Drawing

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you’ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

  Guy Adams

  Jobs, Powerful, People

  Guy Adams: I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship, www.independent.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• Even through the darkest phase
  Be it thick or thin
  Always someone marches brave
  Here beneath my skin

  K. D. Lang

  Brave, Phases, March

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• I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.

  Nia Vardalos

  Thinking

  "TriBeCa Interview: My Life In Ruins with Nia Vardalos". Interview with Matthew-Lee Erlbach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2009.

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• You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.

  Cindy Margolis

  People, Thick Skin, Surround Yourself

  "13 Questions With Cindy Margolis". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. December 5, 2006.

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• It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

  Radhanath Swami

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hands, Listening, Looks

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• My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.

  Sue Townsend

  Being In Love, Thinking, Combination

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.

  Pat Condell

  Over You, Purpose, Faces

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"The Trouble With Islam", www.youtube.com. March 16, 2007.

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• The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn't, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Animal, Tree, Sound

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• Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer . . . We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Temperature, Needs, Social

  "Strategies for productivity: international perspectives". Book by Nihon Seisansei Honbu, p. 124, 1984.

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• I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

  Pauline Hanson

  Believe, Colour, Determine

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

  Teena Marie

  Artist, White, Race

  "Teena Marie, Known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' Dies", www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2010.

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• I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in underneath your skin and is getting colder and colder inside you.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Wish, Cold, Kind

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• You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

  Amy Irving

  Blood, Wind, Water

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• For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

  Tertullian

  Eye, Skills, Modesty

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• I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

  Andy Warhol

  Animal, Leather Pants, Degenerates

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• It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

  Monica Seles

  Color, Complaining, Ankles

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• The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin. But more than that, the Monkey Girl also suggested that I need not be afraid of the fragile happily-ever-after, that I had resources of my own, and that I would not have to contort myself into a restrictive social role for fear of losing that fairytale ending.

  Midori Snyder

  Girl, Unique, Men

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• I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always having people in and out of my house. It's changed the way I feel as a citizen of the world. And it's really important to me to feel good about what I'm working on, to justify the number of hours I'd have to be away from him.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Son, Motherhood, Thinking

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