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We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons. -- Sergei Lavrov
I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent. -- Don Hewitt
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone. -- Sergei Lavrov
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur. -- Tariq Ramadan
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. -- Stephen Daldry
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. -- Susan Griffin
Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?' -- Darren Criss
I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service. -- Fritz Hollings
I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None. -- Chris Hadfield
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything. -- Samantha Shannon
I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect. -- Peter Pace
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. -- Richard Dawkins
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others. -- Paul Di Filippo
One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody. -- Gurinder Chadha
At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all. -- Suresh Raina
I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool. -- Brendan Rodgers
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it. -- Ruth Davidson
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. -- Jack Vance
I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind. -- Oren Peli
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this? -- Darren Criss
I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused. -- Motsoko Pheko
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At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied. -- Adeline Yen Mah
[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done. -- Amy Ziering
Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy. -- Nate Silver
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I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners. -- Joe Shuster
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law. -- Stephen Vizinczey
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. -- Thomas Sowell

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