Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. ~By Armstrong Williams ~
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. ~By Tia Carrere ~
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. ~By Amy Irving ~
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. ~By Winston Churchill ~
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous. ~By Andy Richter ~
I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time. ~By Peter Mayhew ~
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. ~By George William Norris ~
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. ~By Vernon Howard ~
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once. ~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life. ~By Peter Cushing ~
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. ~By Agnes Smedley ~
I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun. ~By Corbin Bleu ~
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first. ~By Ricardo Montalban ~
I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids! ~By Moira Kelly ~
One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist. ~By Linda Blair ~
It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night. ~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan. ~By Mary Daly ~
Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much. ~By Jackie Joyner-Kersee ~
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph. ~By Dennis Rodman ~
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. ~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me. ~By Cheryl Lynn ~
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. ~By Gene Simmons ~
I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. ~By Robert A. Brady ~
The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl. ~By Janeane Garofalo ~
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. ~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that. ~By Nigella Lawson ~
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus. ~By Al Franken ~
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy. ~By Shemar Moore ~
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U. ~By Bryan Robson ~
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. ~By Hans Kung ~
I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ~By Bob Woodward ~
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. ~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. ~By Heather Locklear ~
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. ~By Uma Thurman ~
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. ~By Elbert Hubbard ~
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again. ~By Nikki Giovanni ~
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. ~By Mark Haddon ~
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere. ~By Olga Korbut ~
I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core. ~By Phyllis Diller ~
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. ~By Robert Kennedy ~
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. ~By David Antin ~
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. ~By Emma Thompson ~
Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin. ~By Jessica Biel ~
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. ~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale! ~By Kelly Osbourne ~
A thick skin is a gift from God. ~By Konrad Adenauer ~
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ~By Ian Mcewan ~
People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit. ~By Michael Scott ~
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. ~By David Mellor ~
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. ~By Nam June Paik ~
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet. ~By Macy Gray ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking. ~By John Sexton ~
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. ~By Redd Foxx ~
People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it. ~By George Steinbrenner ~
And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation. ~By Christine O'Donnell ~
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast. ~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person. ~By Diana Ross ~
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. ~By Terence Young ~
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. ~By Spencer Bachus ~
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. ~By Lindsay Lohan ~
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. ~By Angelina Jolie ~
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. ~By Robert Herrick ~
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. ~By Franz Kafka ~
Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde. ~By Nicole Kidman ~
A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ~By Barbara Cartland ~
I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky. ~By Candice Bergen ~
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. ~By William Henry Ashley ~
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion. ~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. ~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ~By John Perry Barlow ~
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else. ~By Kim Gordon ~
Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky. ~By Malin Akerman ~
I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States. ~By Ryan Stiles ~
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ~By Michelangelo ~
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today. ~By Paul Hoffman ~
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ~By John Sexton ~
Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. ~By Courteney Cox ~
If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine. ~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening. ~By Dennis Muren ~
But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients. ~By Jeremy Jackson ~
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. ~By David Copperfield ~
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. ~By Djuna Barnes ~
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ~By Audre Lorde ~
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like. ~By Jules Shear ~
I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that. ~By Suzanne Somers ~
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. ~By Tim Roth ~
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years. ~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. ~By Jean Cocteau ~
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead. ~By Tim Roth ~
And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons. ~By Tony Greig ~
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. ~By Felix Bloch ~
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. ~By John McCarthy ~
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions. ~By Karen Hughes ~
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. ~By Daniel Ellsberg ~
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow. ~By Vanessa Carlton ~
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