- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skin Quotes
From skincare habits to what it means to feel comfortable in your own skin.
Several of the quotes here come from people talking about their actual skincare routines - oil cleansers, sensitive skin, and makeup that evens out skin tone without hiding it. For a broader take, see Care quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
- Amazingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020