"I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on."

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Aimee Bender

#Clothes Quotes #Dating Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

Source : Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”
“If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.”

Source : "Make it end, Jack, be quick" by Jane Simon, www.mirror.co.uk. August 4, 2003.
“In the Forest of Forgetting do you remember any romances? All the relationships in those stories are dark and twisted - people fall in love, but they really shouldn't have. There's even a story about a marriage, but it focuses on a woman who marries a bear!”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.”
“I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.”
“I come up with new ambitions all the time - and the coolest thing is, I think of something I want to do, and I don't really imagine it as "Oh, I've never done that." I think of it as, "Oh, I haven't done that yet." I literally believe I'm going to do everything I set out to do, which is a pretty amazing feeling.”

Source : "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.
“Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”

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