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• I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

  Jello Biafra

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

  Allan Kaprow

  Artist, Dilemma, Persons

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

  Sun Ra

  Philosopher, Politician, Ministers

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• We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Cutting, Issues

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.

  Leven Rambin

  Girl, Angel, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

  Harper Lee

  Selfish, Writing, Audience Of One

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Interview with Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

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• In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Art, Hymns

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Law, Greed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird.

  Lauren Groff

  People, Fans, World

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• I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  India, Reform, Membership

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• We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Political, Special

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Thinking, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

  Kenneth Fisher

  Path, Return, Lifelong

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• To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Reality, Pay, Benefits

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• If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

  Trey Gowdy

  Law, Certain, Turns

  "Congressman rips Obama for acting like tyrant". Fox News Interview, www.wnd.com. December 16, 2013.

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• The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Keys, Vodka, Factors

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• I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

  James Geary

  Believe, Firsts, Aphorism

  James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

  John Sentamu

  Couple, Gay, Needs

  "Redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would benefit nobody" by John Sentamu, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.

  Trick Daddy

  Nice, Two, People

  "Trick Daddy says 'Magic City' book exposes the 'Real Miami'" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.

  Richard Branson

  Strong, Regret, Believe

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Order, Understanding, World

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

  Murray Horwitz

  Hollywood, Film, Plus

  Source: www.npr.org

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