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Quotes About Skin

I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
~ Idris Elba
She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.
~ Susan Juby
His scar?" My skirt was heavy with blood, pooled between my thighs, seeping slowly through the cotton. It tickled when it dripped onto my skin, into my pubic hair, over the labia. I was not wearing underwear. You remember. "He never would tell me." "That fucking Malloy." He laughed. "He ruptured his appendix when he was a kid
~ Susanna Moore
Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate
~ Suzanne Collins
Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson.
~ Suzanne Collins
A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. White, tight reptilian skin smeared with gore, clawed hands and feet, their faces a mess of conflicting features.
~ Suzanne Collins
Hey, Haymitch, if you're not too drunk, we could use a little something for our skin." It's
~ Suzanne Collins
Hey, Haymitch, if you're not too drunk, we could use a little something for our skin." It's almost funny how quickly the parachute appears above me.
~ Suzanne Collins
She has dyed red hair, but from the roots I imagine it's naturally dark. Her skin is pale and her eyes are a light hazel. She's pretty in a really emo sort of way.
~ Suzanne Young
On my raw food diet, my skin shone bright like a gilded deity and my eyes glowed in a somewhat unearthly manner.
~ Sophie Dahl
I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
~ Sally Phillips
I see a dermatologist in L.A. called Dr. Harold Lancer, who is incredible. I've known him for years - he sorted my skin out.
~ Victoria Beckham
There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
~ Mary Steenburgen
I wanted to leave marks or what?prints or blemishes? so when they track you, they'd know, i'd been there inside you, like an odour of your skin
~ ehddah
A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.
~ Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son
Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
And, talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more harmful than before because of changes in the atmosphere, or populations living in an environment mismatching the pigmentation of their skin—or rather, that makers of sun protection products need to make some profits?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Under opacity and in the newfound complexity of the world, people can hide risks and hurt others, with the law incapable of catching them. Iatrogenics has both delayed and invisible consequences. It is hard to see causal links, to fully understand what's going on. Under such epistemic limitations, skin in the game is the only true mitigator of fragility.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more harmful than before because of changes in the atmosphere, or populations living in an environment mismatching the pigmentation of their skin—or rather, that makers of sun protection products need to make some profits?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academia has a tendency, when unchecked (from lack of skin in the game), to evolve into a ritualistic self-referential publishing game.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Which brings us to the largest fragilizer of society, and greatest generator of crises, absence of "skin in the game." Some become antifragile at the expense of others by getting the upside (or gains) from volatility, variations, and disorder and exposing others to the downside risks of losses or harm.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
True equality is equality in probability. and Skin in the game prevents systems from rotting.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
blindness to fragility, selective memory, and absence of skin in the game.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb