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• I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

  Jamie Cullum

  Men, Trying, Sound

  "Fly me to the croon - the style that never goes out of fashion" by Martin Deeson, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Art, Disease, Causes

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• I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.

  Billy Wilder

  Bored, Moved On, Made

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• I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Fiction, Next

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• When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Father, Believe

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jun 15, 2014

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• I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

  Jane Smiley

  Romance, Fascination, Not Friends

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.164, Anchor

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• But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Fall, Artist, Two

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• We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Class, Suffering

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• You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

  Peter Thiel

  Want, Lasts, Valuable

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• I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

  Anthony Braxton

  Music, Gone, Jazz

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• I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

  Fred Thompson

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "Former Sen. Fred Thompson on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 11, 2007.

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• Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?

  Zhuangzi

  Moving, Creativity, Expression

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• Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

  Sheri L. Dew

  Divorce, Etc, Used

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• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  Manning Marable

  Black And White, Self, America

  Manning Marable (1995). “Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics”, p.202, Verso

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• I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  India, Reform, Membership

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• I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

  Sun Ra

  Philosopher, Politician, Ministers

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• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

  David Sanborn

  Country, Hip Hop, Different

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

  Emeli Sande

  Want, Bothered, No Point

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Mean, Patents, Doe

  "May the Source Be With You". Wired, December 9, 2001.

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• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

  Lois Lowry

  Couple, Book, Fall

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• I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

  Jello Biafra

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

  Allan Kaprow

  Artist, Dilemma, Persons

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

  Dick Cavett

  Fall, Different, Imagine

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