#ski

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#asking #call #chance #citizens #forever

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#about #arts #because #business #degrees

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. ↗

— Cornel West

#always #barack #barack obama #being #black

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#band #clear #drop #get #hat

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. ↗

— E. B. White

#bent #days #effect #ill #knowingly

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin. ↗

— Ron White

#anybody #anything #could #literally #me

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple. ↗

— Shaun White

#fancy #grooming #i #keep #nice

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain. ↗

— Shaun White

#brain #games #i #interactive #learned

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. ↗

— Shaun White

#call #date #daughters #e-mails #get