"The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots."
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"It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands."
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"In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises."
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"It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer."
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"Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?"
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"Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know."
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"Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide."
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"I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration."
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"I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human."
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"Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through."
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"Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can't imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item of sweaty clothing."
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"Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations."
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"I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha."
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"...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human."
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"History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another."
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"The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it."
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"Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin."
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"I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike."
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"There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place."
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"Your skin's so fair its not fair"
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