Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
Mamie Van Doren
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I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
Lorde
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The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Fernand Braudel
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Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Not caring what people think about you is so much easier said than done and I think that it's easy to be in school and kind of compare yourself to everybody else, you might think that you're weird because some people don't like you or because you just dont feel like you belong in your own skin in your school and I think that it's important to realize that there's absolutely nothing wrong with you you're worth so much. As time progresses you'll see that and you have to learn to love yourself and accept yourself because its your skin.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
Anthony Trollope
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If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them...
Brooke Valentine
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People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.
Olga Kurylenko
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Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.
Hannah Arendt
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If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.
Tom Hollander
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
Diane Ackerman
