"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die."
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"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
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"If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal."
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"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
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"We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin."
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"Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's."
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"It's a sin problem, not a skin problem."
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"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
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"Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color."
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"The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . ."
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"Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark."
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"I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all."
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"I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours."
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"What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe."
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"it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"
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"Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I'm convinced that of all the changes I've made to my lifestyle, it's the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me - physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually."
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"Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives."
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"Wear your heart on your skin in this life."
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"There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion."
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"It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste."
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