quotes about Categories
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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 KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press
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There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
-- Bryan White -
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
-- Claudia CardinaleSource : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.
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I don't want to be lumped into any categories.
-- Corey Feldman -
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!
-- David Berg -
To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.
-- David FirstSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
-- Derek WebbSource : FaceBook post by Derek Webb from Sep 06, 2011
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I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
-- Emeli Sande -
Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists
-- Ennio Flaiano -
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
-- Ernest GellnerSource : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.94, Cornell University Press
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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
-- Francis Picabia -
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The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.
-- Fuzzy Zoeller -
I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.†I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted†category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold†or “unsold.†But that's just my own filing system.
-- Gary Reilly -
You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
-- James Frey -
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I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
-- Jane Smiley -
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.
-- Johannes Kepler -
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.
-- John Legend -
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
-- Jules Romains -
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All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
-- Kenneth Fisher -
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 -
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
-- Marianne Moore -
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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The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.
-- Monique WittigSource : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
-- Noel Gallagher -
Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.
-- Reince PriebusSource : "Interview with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 3, 2012.
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The good is not a category that interests me.
-- Rem KoolhaasSource : "Exploring the Unmaterial World". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. June 1, 2000.
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There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again,
-- Robert MuellerSource : "FBI Director: Cybercrime will eclipse terrorism" by Stacy Cowley, money.cnn.com. March 2, 2012.
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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
-- Robert SmithsonSource : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press
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I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.
-- Rufus WainwrightSource : "Rufus Wainwright's got a full plate". Interview with J.D. Considine, beta.theglobeandmail.com. April 17, 2012.
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Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".
-- Sheri L. Dew -
I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.
-- Siouxsie Sioux -
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
-- Sun Ra -
To me, a feminist belong 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 -
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
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I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"
-- Tim Burton -
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.
-- Timothy Gowers -
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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 GowdySource : "Congressman rips Obama for acting like tyrant". Fox News Interview, www.wnd.com. December 16, 2013.
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despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha -
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
-- Twyla Tharp -
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
-- Walker Percy -
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I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?
-- Hilary KornblithSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.
-- Laurie SimmonsSource : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
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AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than a lot of people's, actually. AI can have more knowledge of detailed categories, like animals and so on.
-- Stuart J. Russell -
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There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category.
-- Timothy Omundson -
People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.
-- Steve McQueenSource : Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk