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• ...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

  Michel Foucault

  Sick, Different, Three

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• It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

  Patricia Marx

  Fall, Intellectual, Hobbies

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

  Ezra Pound

  Artist, Giving, Doe

  Ezra Pound (1950). “Patria Mia”, Chicago, Seymour

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• If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Math, People

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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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• English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

  Zadie Smith

  Fall, Writing, Epic

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• Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

  Seth Godin

  Competition, Permit, Yes Or No

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• And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

  Claudia Cardinale

  Directors, Individualism, Bigs

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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• Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

  Cornel West

  Civilization, Nihilism, Mastery

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 20, 2012

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• I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Artist, Gun, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

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• But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Feminist, Political

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• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  Zadie Smith

  Artist, Errors, Politician

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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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• 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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• Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

  Brian Eno

  Sometimes, Term, Human Experience

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

  Louis C. K.

  Fall, Thinking, Issues

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Appreciate, Kind

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