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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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• 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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• I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

  Judith Butler

  Safety, Feminism, Poverty

  Udi Aloni, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler (2011). “What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters”, p.205, Columbia University Press

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• The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

  Monique Wittig

  Sex, Political, Found

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another. In the past I've had successful relationships with men, and now I'm in this successful relationship with a woman. When it comes to love I am totally open. And I don't want to be put into a category, as in "I'm this" or "I'm that."

  Amber Heard

  Successful, Past, Men

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religion, Ingredients, Rhetoric

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

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• I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, People, Deny

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

  Brendan O'Carroll

  Horse, Missing, Towers

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• I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.

  Ava Gardner

  Animal, Men, Drunk

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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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• 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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• Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Believe, Mind

  "The Shadow of the Torturer". Book by Gene Wolfe, 1980.

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• Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

  Oliver Stone

  Independence, Mind, Spirit

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• When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Dust, Perfection

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• So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

  Bruno Schulz

  Soul, Trying, Depth

  Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski (1990). “Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose”, Fromm Intl

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• We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Two, Feelings

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• In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

  Epictetus

  Jobs, Two, Choices

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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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