Rhiannon Giddens

I love singing opera, but the world surrounding it is not me. I want to be barefoot. I want to be in control of my own career. I want to put on a show. In the opera world, you wait for people to call you until you get to a certain level. In the folk world, it's a lot easier to have control from the beginning.

American Musician

Zola Budd

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

South African Athlete

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

French Musician

Thiago Silva

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

Brazilian Athlete

Summer Sanders

I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me.

American Athlete

Brooklyn Decker

I want to live a normal life - drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.

American Model

Yanni

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

Greek Musician

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

I desire to leave this world as I entered it - barefoot and broke.

American Philanthropist

Benjamin Franklin

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

American Politician

Shakira

Musician

Use 'barefoot' to emphasize the feeling of different surfaces under the feet.

Sensory Experience

In some cultures, being barefoot is a sign of respect or spirituality.

Cultural Practice

'Barefoot' suggests a casual, informal situation or environment.

Informal Setting

Describing someone as 'barefoot' often evokes an image of carefree youth.

Childhood Innocence

Sometimes, being 'barefoot' can hint at poverty or a rustic lifestyle.

Economic Implication

'Barefoot' as a noun often relates to a growing trend in fitness and running.

Fitness Movement

Barefoot running is seen as a way to connect more with nature.

Connected to Nature

 now that we got AIDS somewhat out of the way -- this time, not with government alone, but in cooperation with the business community. Because poor people are business people who lack business skills and access to credit. Those are the things to be provided by the business community. We're trying to turn them into barefoot entrepreneurs,

Mechai Viravaidya: How...

 He's barefoot. He'll run back into his house, and he will contaminate his drinking water and his food and his environment with whatever diseases he may be carrying by fecal particles that are on his fingers and feet. In what I call the flushed-and-plumbed world that most of us in this room are lucky to live in,

Rose George: Let's talk...

 first Ironman I ever did it was the most human day in the history of that day in Florida and when I got off the bike to put my left foot in my sneaker my foot had exploded and I couldn't fit it in the sneaker no one told me that that scenario would happen talk about barefoot running another race

Are you challenging...

 what will help the poor those are living in poverty access to credit must be a human right access to credit human right otherwise they'll never get out of poverty and then before getting alone you must be trained here's a what we call a barefoot MBA teaching people how

How Mr. Condom made...

 he was having a very engaging conversation with the homeowner, who was surely having one of the worst days of her life. Here it was, the middle of the night, she was standing outside in the pouring rain, under an umbrella, in her pajamas, barefoot,

Mark Bezos: A life...

 sometimes we call them community paralegals, or barefoot lawyers, can be a bridge. These paralegals are from the communities they serve. They demystify law, break it down into simple terms, and then they help people look for a solution.

How to put the power of...

 the rustling of the sheets, my husband walking barefoot in the next room -- could cause excruciating pain. I would spend most of the next two years in bed. How could my doctor have gotten it so wrong? I thought I had a rare disease,

What happens when you...

 Heading into the night barefoot to answer the call of nature is the norm in rural areas and one of the most common causes of snake encounters. Using the figures from the new report, and his own decades of field experience,

Viper Bite in Slow Mo! PIPE...

 is buried but there is one thing here he'll need as he ventures into California here it is this is what I'm after the most important thing you need walking around modern civilization papers walk around a city barefoot I

Digging up Paperwork PIPE...

 Barefoot so you take a little piece of bark and leave it like this so it looks like a barefoot today Mick's come here to leave a message for his good friend norm the man he hopes can help him cross the river this one is