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Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. -- Shoshana Zuboff
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? -- Walker Percy
The good is not a category that interests me. -- Rem Koolhaas
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. -- Francis Picabia
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman. -- Whitney Chadwick
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. -- Philip Wylie
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. -- Gloria Steinem
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. -- Twyla Tharp
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... -- Thomas Carlyle
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. -- H. L. Mencken
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. -- Adolf Hitler
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. -- Sarah Vaughan
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. -- Roger Ebert
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it. -- Fiona Apple
Transparent is a drama/comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories. It's that good. -- David Bianculli
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. -- Gail Tsukiyama
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.. -- Tavis Smiley
You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order. -- Alberto Manguel
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? -- Robert Redford
People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both. -- Jonathan Carroll
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead -- Lauren Bacall
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius. -- Tabatha Coffey
A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong, you can go down to the lowest category invented by the Indian women ever - rakhi brother. Rakhi brother really means 'you can talk to me, but don't even freaking think about anything else you bore'. -- Chetan Bhagat
The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories. -- Jim Wallis
Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks. -- Howard Schultz
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. -- Preston Manning
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music. -- Sam Hunt
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far. -- Greg Boyle
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. -- Christopher Lasch
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. -- Rene Cassin
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action. -- Emile Durkheim
The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. -- Marc Andreessen
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism. -- Octavio Paz
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be? -- Gordon W. Allport
The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity. -- Tracy Chapman
Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You'll find 'natural flavor' or 'artificial flavor' in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences. -- David Chang
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl. -- Elizabeth Berkley
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories! -- James Belushi
Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories. -- Temple Grandin
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad. -- A. R. Rahman
There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States. -- Jan C. Ting
One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought. -- David Miliband
It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon. -- Steve Aoki
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness. -- Gary Larson
I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online. -- Nate Berkus
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures. -- John Carpenter
I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hardening of the categories causes art disease. -- W. Eugene Smith
Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories. -- David Brooks
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. -- Robert Smithson
I don't want to be lumped into any categories. -- Corey Feldman
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories. -- Alan Cumming
Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists -- Ennio Flaiano
I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups. -- Gretchen Rubin
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit. -- Bruce Dickinson
Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me. -- Usher
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. -- Frank Herbert
I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. -- David Byrne
The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood. -- Murray Horwitz
You can't just lump things into two categories. Things aren't that simple. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't. -- Steve McQueen
Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories. -- Timothy Keller
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. -- Tom Peters
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. -- Alfred Kinsey
I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining. -- Paul Horn
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis. -- Tom Hoover
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. -- Mal Peet
We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people. -- Rachel Held Evans
You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad. -- Duke Ellington
I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. -- Tanith Lee
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious. -- Steve Martin
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. -- Ned Rorem
Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc. -- Charles Pelly
We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side. -- Serena Williams
There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives. -- Charlotte Whitton
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. -- Thomas Szasz
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. -- John Legend
My view is that we will still have many different categories of cars in the future. -- Henrik Fisker
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. -- Anthony Braxton
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. -- Stanislas Dehaene
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths. -- Kenneth Fisher
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony. -- Pankaj Mishra
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories. -- Johannes Kepler
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. -- Emily Gould
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. -- James Geary
Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships. -- John Harricharan
Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled. -- Alexandra Adornetto
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example . -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs. -- Clayton Christensen
Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity. -- Jose Marti
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories. -- Janice Dickinson
My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking. -- Brad Pitt
We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories? -- Charlotte Rampling
You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman -- Christian Louboutin
I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet. -- Andrew Luck
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. -- Allan Kaprow
I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could. -- Gary Dourdan
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious. -- Terence McKenna
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. -- Edward Said
Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize. -- St. Jerome
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. -- Rhonda Byrne
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Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. -- David Mamet
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. -- Anton Chekhov
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful." -- Hermann Broch
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
Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism. -- David Papineau
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have. -- Phil Keoghan
Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them. -- Felix Klein
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. -- Dorothy Allison

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