“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”
Section 4 (p. 326)
Midnight Robber (2000)
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“Barack Obama being young, handsome and sun-tanned is going to get along with you swimmingly.”
On the US president-elect to Dmitry Medvedev, as quoted in 'Italy's Berlusconi hails "suntanned" Obama' in Reuters (6 November 2008) http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE4A562120081106, "Berlusconi faces race row as he calls America's first black president 'suntanned'" in Mail on Sunday (6 November 2008) http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1083664/Berlusconi-faces-race-row-calls-Americas-black-president-suntanned.html
2008

“Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.”
Section 4 (p. 179)
Midnight Robber (2000)

As quoted by Teles of Megara, fr. 2, On Self-Sufficiency

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“Jack: I want to look tanned, not lumpy.”
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means