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I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

Noel Gallagher

Fall, Artist, Made

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Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

Henry Louis Gates

Latin, Color, America

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There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Frank Gehry

Simple, Two, People

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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Erica Jong

Writing, Class, Feelings

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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Writing, Parent, Different

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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

Reflection, Names, Flux

William James (2015). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

James Hillman

Loss, United States, Different

"America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

Herbie Hancock

Hip Hop, Movement, Eras

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For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield

Years, Space Flight, Two

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It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

Eva Green

Taken, Character, Dark

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You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Al Gore

Winning, Littles, Old Saying

2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 26 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Mother, Children, Tragedy

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Intelligence is a moral category.

Theodor Adorno

Moral

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.197, Verso

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Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

Jean Ferris

Congratulations, Mean, Done

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Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category

Mira Grant

Shopping, Dating, Guy

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I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

Louis L'Amour

Thinking, People, Age

Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.504, Bantam

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Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

Marie Lu

June, People, Reason

Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

Taylor Swift

Love, Two, Different

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That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.

David Levithan

Party, Kissing, Hands

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It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

Stephen Hawking

Shapes, Four, Structure

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According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

Alain de Botton

Fate, Thinking, Secular Society

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That’s how you tell what a man’s really made of. It’s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin’ after a woman when she’s shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you.

Janet Evanovich

Men, Shopping, Giving

Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.136, Macmillan

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You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens

Libba Bray

Running, Queens, Pain

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Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.

Jonathan Carroll

Years, Two, Forgiving

Jonathan Carroll (2006). “Glass Soup”, p.58, Macmillan

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Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?” “Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their lives. Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph—you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into each category. You can learn a lot about what you put into each category by your reaction to them. They teach you about yourself without ever intending to do it—and they teach you a lot about life.

Michelle Sagara

Loss, Expression, People

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