Skin Quotes

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
J. C. Watts

Society, Character, Political

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts

Done, Black, Poor

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.
Rick Springfield

Feeling, Wanted, Times

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Wendell Willkie

Freedom, Fight, Enjoy

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.
Joan Collins

Good, Truth, Care

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.
Christopher Walken

Keep, Stop, Takes

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikki Giovanni

Again, Leave, Grow

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson

Fear, Today, Here

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
Alton Brown

Great, Focus, Goal

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Gene Simmons

Beautiful, Quite, Popular

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.
Joan Collins

Time, Care, Sun

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.
Carrie Underwood

Time, Saying, Hard

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
Josh Radnor

Great, Feeling, Makes

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
Danny Boyle

Experience, Try, Film

I've got thick skin.
Curt Schilling

I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
Elizabeth Hurley

Love, Good, Women

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheilah Graham

Through, Enough, Energy

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
Russell Crowe

Movies, Night, Eyes

There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.
Brooke Burke

Woman, Her, Feels

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio

True, Able, Femininity

I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.
Carnie Wilson

Advice, Big, Looks

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
Gabrielle Union

Cancer, Five, Meant

I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
Idris Elba

Nice, Sexy, Woman

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Ziyi Zhang

Time, Beautiful, Long

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Ian Mcewan

Off, Makes, Reading

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.
Alveda King

Last, Election, Color

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.
Alveda King

Someone, President, Office

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia

Good, Yourself, Someone

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.
Alton Brown

Nice, Real, Before

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!
Alton Brown

Evil, Nothing, Why

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