#skinned

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ↗

— Ross Perot

#knees #like #painful #skinned #superficial

A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale. ↗

— Judith Graves

#life

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#destroyed #doing #elbows #era #even

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. ↗

— David Mellor

#charge #lawyers #like #ready #short-sighted

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#alive #animal #anyone #argue #caring

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. ↗

— Terence Young

#cruel #face #fleming #hard #himself

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#get #goal #knees #may #score