Khoudia Diop

Even though I was very young, it was traumatizing seeing someone try weird things on their skin all for the sake of being lighter. It's as common as relaxing your hair or maybe even brushing your teeth. I had friends not wanting to do it, but their moms gave them creams to help lighten their skin. That's how accessible it is.

Senegalese Actress

Barack Obama

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

American President

RJ Cyler

In life, my childish behavior is the good kind, not to where it's annoying and, 'Wow, someone sit him down and give him a bottle, give him a Pamper.' It's like, 'This situation is very heavy, but RJ is here, so he'll lighten things up a little.

American Actor

Isabelle Adjani

People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.

French Actress

Martin Scorsese

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

American Director

Todd Phillips

The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Kenneth Branagh

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

Irish Actor

Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

English Novelist

Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Indian Poet

Stephen J. Cannell

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

American Producer

Lighten often implies a positive, uplifting change in emotion when removing darkness.

Emotional Brightening

The term can suggest adding or introducing a light source, not just color changes.

Light Source

Lighten often connects with reducing stress or difficulty, not just physical weight.

Burden Aspect

Can reflect easing emotional or metaphorical loads, beyond the literal.

Figurative Loads

In social settings, 'lighten' describes making an environment more relaxed or pleasant.

Atmospheric Change

Implies a process of becoming less heavy or severe over time.

Gradual Improvement

Refers to altering something's appearance, mainly towards lighter shades.

Appearance Focus

Even a slight change in color can be described as 'lighten,' not just dramatic differences.

Subtle Variations

'Lighten up' implies reducing the severity or harshness of something.

Easing Intensity

Saying 'lighten up' to someone is a casual way to suggest they be less serious.

Informal Encouragement

 to the point of absurdity we're going to hand that off to the biomechanics to explain how it could get away with lightening the skeleton as much as it did it wasn't I don't think a flotation device I think it was just trying to reduce the amount of living tissue it had to support and still get by and it

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 her oxygenation they can get very complicated and an athletics they're very prone to option ation problems hypoxia not enough oxygen so we just keep on playing around with this drug just to lighten her levels and it just helps us to get her up as well because this is the thing she's a big girl so we

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 not that they will sell -- that there is felt a need for people to lighten the color of their skin. This was either an old product with new packaging, or a brand-new package, and I just thought, Yikes! How's that still happening? I do a lot of workshops all over the world, really,

David Carson: Design,...

 got a little bored. To lighten things up, one pretended to be Poseidon by placing a seaweed garland on his head and then throwing it into the ocean. Moments later, a dolphin surfaced with the seaweed crowning her head. Sure, this could have been a coincidence,

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 So they benefited from vitamin D, developed strong bones, and survived well enough to produce healthy offspring. Over many generations of selection, skin color in those regions gradually lightened. As a result of our ancestor's adaptability,

The science of skin...

 look at this scene and I write in the book that this intensely developed utterly built world of Tokyo all of its weight was gathered in this view and lightened my favorite chapter in the book is just looking and it's in this

The Life of a Photograph...

 you said we're number one and on the landing for takeoff so obviously humor pays a big pot as well in it I think well I I had been saving up that phrase something who respond to maybe lighten the moment as we received the

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 people were not only toughening up they were lightening up as well our African ancestors would have had relatively dark-skinned Galatz of sunlight it's a very tropical place you need some way of protecting your skin

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 that couldn't do any less than lighten the soul. Wanting to take revenge is a very human emotion -- instinctual, even. And all I wanted to do for years was to hurt Tom back as deeply as he had hurt me.

Our story of rape and...

 think about what would actually motivate me and keep course to being Delilah but lighten life athlete that I really really wanted to be I also wondered if it was time to