Michiko Kakutani Quotes

The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.

Michiko Kakutani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1955

Topics

FearPeopleAmericanPoliticalSame

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

Jock Sturges

GovernmentSmallIronyUpWould

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Jill Lepore

LifeFamilyHomeChildrenDieHelp

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

Meghan Markle

LifeRedMeMy LifeChooseRefugee

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Ann Beattie

LifeDailyMyselfDaily LifeThink

A network did not make me, and therefore, a network cannot break me.

Tomi Lahren

MeBreakCannotMakeDidNetwork

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Mary Quant

TodayFashionAliveBeingPart

The people like me because I don't have to pretend that I'm a good Muslim - when I talk about my faith, it's between me and my God.

Julia Perez

GoodGodFaithPeopleMeTalk

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

Jasmine Guinness

OpportunityJobLovedDesignClothes

Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.

Jonathan Miles

BirdGraceThingsWholePlateFew

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

Ali Smith

ChangeWorldQuestionsYouAskRead

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Tim Tebow

SuccessBestFootballBelieveCareer

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style.

Nicole Polizzi

StyleAnythingLikeHarry Potter

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