#skin

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. ↗

— John Yoo

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When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near. ↗

— Neil Young

#asking #close #know #near #over

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #biological #birth #cannot #eighteen

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#back #been #first #go #i

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#country #desert #first #oasis #parasite

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#felt #i #into #life #made

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#hardened #liquid #mass #much #part

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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