Michiko Kakutani Quotes

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

Michiko Kakutani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MirrorArtWorldMoreSomethingUs

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

Jesse Kellerman

ScienceTimePeopleSelfLiterature

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

John Oates

LiveAppreciateYouWantInsideOut

A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.

Matthew Desmond

RoadsFireFishingFightWoodsYou

I took action to allow Montanans to participate in direct primary care agreements with doctors and authorized the use of health care sharing ministries, both of which provide alternatives for more affordable health care.

Matt Rosendale

HealthActionCareSharingMore

The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

Jean Patou

WomanWorldFeetAmericanPerfect

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

Steve Rushin

MyselfPoliceManMeStartHaircut

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Ruth Ozeki

TimeMeSocietyAppreciateAmerican

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

Jordan Gavaris

TogetherSchoolCompetitionKnow

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

Chris Stokes

SuccessHistoryStartBoyGroupUp

Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

Annie Jacobsen

GovernmentWritingEyeSkiesBeen

We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.

Anohni

LifeBeautifulHistoryDreamEarth

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

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