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• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  Caio Fonseca

  Wall, Needs, Painting

  "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

  George Clooney

  Years, Two, Looks

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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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• 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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• I am somebody who - my path to my faith is very kind of individual, and I don't want to be lumped into the category of those Westboro Baptists.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Baptists, Want, Path

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Army, Unique

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• I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Fit, Particular

  "Rufus Wainwright's got a full plate". Interview with J.D. Considine, beta.theglobeandmail.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Games, Confusion

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

  Jud Wilhite

  Pain, Struggle, Yuppies

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• There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Groups, Reform, World

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to remind me that the original was a colossal hit ($700 million worldwide) and the sequel will probably do just as well. I know it's popular. So is junk food, and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.

  Peter Travers

  Revenge, Brain, Junk

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• I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Design, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category. And we have derivatives like credit default swaps which are in this category, and we have derivatives like volatilities that are actually an asset class that we can invest in which are now - would out perform if we have another financial crisis.

  Robert F. Engle

  Mean, Class, Gold

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• 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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• Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Fit, Expected

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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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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• Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Religious, Gay

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

  Michael Emerson

  Groups, Different, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Confusion, Political

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

  Steve Wozniak

  Greatness, People, Leader

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• I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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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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