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Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. -- Timothy Gowers
It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur. -- Kenneth Williams
Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people. -- Reince Priebus
I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York. -- Joe Lhota
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid. -- Jeff Goodell
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens -- Libba Bray
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
The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this next stage of my career. The promotional savvy and level of support they've pledged meets or exceeds anything I've seen from the major labels I've been associated with. -- Travis Tritt
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. -- Theodor Adorno
The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. -- Susie Orbach
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. -- Gary Oldman
People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults. -- Travis Tritt
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently. -- Suzanne Vega
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
I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything. -- Brian McKnight
Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different. -- Dick Cavett
I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me! -- Reese Witherspoon
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. -- Vladimir Lenin
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. -- Louis Pasteur
Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad. -- Maz Jobrani
Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes. -- Christine Quinn
I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution. -- Stephen Hawking
Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue. -- Louis C. K.
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
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
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. -- Jennifer Egan
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. -- Alice Oswald
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists. -- Frans de Waal
There's not really a ban on the KIA bracelet specifically. There are regulations for wearing the uniform and specifically jewelry, and Marines are not allowed to wear bracelets. This falls under that spectrum. Now, the KIA bracelet will be lumped into the same category as the POW/MIA bracelets, which are approved for wear. -- James F. Amos
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
Intelligence is a moral category. -- Theodor Adorno
Miscellaneous is always the largest category. -- Joel Rosenberg
The Clash, in particular, transcends any category. -- Scott Raab
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category. -- Ernest Gellner
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. -- Gilbert Ryle
The good is not a category that interests me. -- Rem Koolhaas
I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. -- Rufus Wainwright
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. -- Jules Romains
Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category. -- Oliver Stone
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. -- Mason Cooley
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman. -- Whitney Chadwick
Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category. -- Anita Baker
When you think hotness appeal, vampires automatically fall into that category. -- Josh Hutcherson
Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there. -- Roger Ebert
I think making features has got to be in the addiction category. -- Laurie Simmons
Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category. -- Jim Palmer
The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. -- Monique Wittig
We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... -- Roman Abramovich
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. -- Alberto Manguel
I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining. -- Paul Horn
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. -- Noam Chomsky
I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category. -- Michael Keaton
I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category. -- Roy Haylock
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. -- Nora Roberts
Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism? -- Przemek Skwirczynski
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. -- Jurgen Habermas
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. -- Philip Wylie
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. -- Nora Roberts
I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category. -- Bob Newhart
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out. -- Bryan White
The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. -- Seth Godin
John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike. -- Sam Kinison
The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product. -- Al Ries
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. -- Sun Ra
There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category. -- Timothy Omundson
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director. -- Claudia Cardinale
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. -- Alain de Botton
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything. -- Phil Klay
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it. -- Marianne Moore
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category. -- Tom Hanks
Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart -- a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness. -- Pablo Neruda
Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category. -- Glenn Frey
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. -- Ishmael Reed
My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one. -- Diane Sawyer
We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category. -- Pushpa Rana
You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category. -- Al Gore
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. -- Jeff Bezos
I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views. -- Andrew Bird
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals. -- African Spir
You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable. -- Peter Thiel
As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color. -- Angelique Kidjo
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. -- Noel Gallagher
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. -- Caio Fonseca
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book. -- Haruki Murakami
I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category. -- Arthur Bradford
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category. -- George Brown, Baron George-Brown
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no. -- Seth Godin
I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited. -- Lana Del Rey
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. -- Dave Barry
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. -- John C. Baez
I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. -- John Updike
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. -- Karsten Harries
You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper! -- Dave Ramsey
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. -- Adolf Hitler
You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different. -- Hosain Rahman
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. -- Roger Ebert
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. -- George Stigler
Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust. -- Renee Marino
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. -- Terence McKenna
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. -- Vanna Bonta
Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo. -- Wesley Morris
An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon. -- Tom Peters
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it -- William James
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. -- Isaac Asimov
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! -- David Berg
Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved. -- Megan Ellison
And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula -- Terrence Howard
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. -- Sarah Vaughan
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. -- Marianne Moore
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
I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that. -- Marina Abramovic
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Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. -- Allen Klein
Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. -- Robert Jay Lifton
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. -- Robert Jay Lifton

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