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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Heaven, Democracy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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• People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love, Forgiveness, Two

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• I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Lying, Pillars

  1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Running, Art, Dad

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Two, Bullshit, Metals

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• I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

  George Carlin

  Artist, Thinking, Analysis

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• People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

  Steve McQueen

  People, Trying

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Falling In Love, Father

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2011

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• I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

  Junot Diaz

  Kids, Black, Safe

  "Hispanic Heritage Month: A Story That Can't be Told Without Afro-Latino Roots". Interview with Sandra E. Garcia, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2011.

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• If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

  Cat Deeley

  Different, Needs, Spiders

  "Nerdy but nice". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• The only thing I could think of - because I really don't like categories - but the only thing I could think of is inspirational, and I think music that is from the heart falls right into that category.

  Prince

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  "Musician Prince Dies at Age 57". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, Locked

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.608, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Class, America

  "Tomdispatch Interview: Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Interview with Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

  Janice Dickinson

  Different, Back In The Day, Advertising

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Israel, World

  "Noam Chomsky barred by Israelis from lecturing in Palestinian West Bank" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2010.

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• In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

  Noam Chomsky

  4th Of July, America, Mechanic

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Mean, Kids

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• I’m listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I’m pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

  Steve Carell

  Artist, Listening, Female

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

  David Byrne

  Lists, Breaking Things

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• Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

  Steve Wozniak

  Greatness, People, Leader

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• I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Fit, Particular

  "Rufus Wainwright's got a full plate". Interview with J.D. Considine, beta.theglobeandmail.com. April 17, 2012.

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