Ikue Mori Quotes

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Soul
  • Snow
  • Victim

• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Child
  • Just
  • Rapper

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Goal
  • Unique

• I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Amazing
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Cabaret
  • Mohicans

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Nature
  • Child

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Together
  • Better

• In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Free
  • Attention

• American music culture is black culture.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • American
  • Black

• Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Illness
  • Angels
  • Presence

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

  

  David First
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Sound

• I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Mornings

• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Important
  • Really

• I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Really
  • Left
  • Japan