#ski

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#been #got #gullible #had #i

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#age #imaginations #instill #minds #need

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up. ↗

— George Catlin

#back #clean #deer #down #dress

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#chance #democracy #dream #give #grateful

The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab. ↗

— James Chanos

#derivatives #desks #driving #i #know

What happens when you're both the Beauty and the Beast?" ~ Second Skin tagline ↗

— Judith Graves

#skinned-series #beauty

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#had #i #oratory #skills #them

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself. ↗

— Daphne Delacroix

#perfection #skill #wisdom #inspirational

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#inside #life #our #own #sentenced

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#calculate #constantly #correctly #either #how