Categories Quotes - Page 34

• One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, People, Jam

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Atheist, White

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

  Immortal Technique

  Race, Hip Hop, Historical

  "The Transcendence of Hip Hop - An Interview with Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.

  Benjamin Carson

  Flames, People, Understanding

  "Ben Carson calls for unity as Charleston community recovers from tragedy". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2015.

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• The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Might, Facts, Married

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mistake, Book, Learning

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

  Michelle Shocked

  Differences, Knowing, Fit

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• You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

  Rickey Henderson

  Opportunity, Player, Games

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• Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

  Wendell Berry

  Hatred, Cold Hearted, Abstract

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• Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber

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• Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

  Tom Hoover

  Reality, Experience, Analysis

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• I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Fall, Littles

  "CNN Larry King Live". Interview With James Frey, transcripts.cnn.com. January 11, 2006.

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• Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Interesting

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• Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb,
  Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

  Tom Hoover

  Friends, Art, Men

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• It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

  Ed Asner

  Athlete, Years, Hot

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I rarely get mentioned in the same category as these other guys who have come out after me...[b]ut maybe I'm not that, maybe I'm not an Internet rapper.

  Danny Denzongpa

  Rapper, Guy, Internet

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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, Topics, Firsts

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• Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

  Satya Nadella

  Party, Mean, Phones

  "Microsoft's CEO Sent Out A Giant Manifesto To Employees About The Future Of The Company" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2014.

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• I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Writing, Advice, Trying

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• I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

  Jane Lindskold

  Horse, Clever, Animal

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• I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Erode, Moral

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

  Carol Tavris

  Food, Two, Worry

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• I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Fall, Eye, Wells

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• No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

  Edward Sapir

  Symbolism, Important, World

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

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