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You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable. — Peter Thiel

The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories - gay and straight. — Gore Vidal

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft. — Jean-Louis Gassee

Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star. — Alice Notley

The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes - cat lovers and the underprivileged. — David Taylor

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

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. — Tanith Lee

You can't just lump things into two categories. Things aren't that simple. — Jake Gyllenhaal

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category. — Ben Marcus

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost — Russell Baker

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color. — Angelique Kidjo

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson — Taylor Swift

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words ... Be not the slave of Words ... — Thomas Carlyle

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once. — David Plotz

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. — Ned Rorem

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me. — John Powell

We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! — David Berg

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups. — Gretchen Rubin

My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking. — Brad Pitt

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining. — Paul Horn

Ren's conquests fell into two categories: those girls who still pined for him and those who stuck pins into his voodoo likeness every night. — Andrea Cremer

There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category. — Timothy Omundson

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it. — Fiona Apple

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in! — Judd Apatow

People are of 3 categories;Some dream with an opportunity.Some pursue it and some create it — Mohammed Sekouty

The operators divided the world into two categories: shooters and non-shooters. — Mitchell Zuckoff

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

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. — Jean-Claude Juncker

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful." — Hermann Broch

You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper! — Dave Ramsey

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category. — Ernest Gellner

popularity when you open it. There are 20 more categories we don't — Morris Rosenthal

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity. — Jose Marti

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. — Twyla Tharp

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story. — Derek Webb

Within each of these categories, the principle was the same: rarity and beauty increased value. — Margaret Atwood

I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly. — Chaz Bundick

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives. — Charlotte Whitton

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles. — Adrian Rogers

Hardening of the categories causes art disease. — W. Eugene Smith

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no. — Seth Godin

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category. — Glenn Frey

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product. — Al Ries

Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc. — Charles Pelly

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing. — James Frey

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination. — Jane Smiley

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories. — Alan Cumming

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

But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves. — Veronica Roth

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

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks. — Howard Schultz

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. — Mason Cooley

Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder. — Karen Armstrong

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make. — Stephen Colbert

You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman — Christian Louboutin

The Clash, in particular, transcends any category. — Scott Raab

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. — Monique Wittig

All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories. — Min Jin Lee

The world is divided into two categories of people: those who shit in drinking water and those who don't. — Joseph Jenkins

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz

Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled. — Alexandra Adornetto

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. — Frederick Lenz

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs. — Clayton Christensen

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

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy — Jennifer Gold

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? — Walker Percy

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

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

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike. — Sam Kinison

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ... prior to the other categories. — Johannes Kepler

Success and leadership need to be redefined in communal categories. — Preben Vang

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

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. — Gloria Steinem

I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet. — Andrew Luck

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit. — Bruce Dickinson

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces. — Stephen Hawking

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. — David Byrne

tax is always more than just a tax: it is also a way of defining norms and categories and imposing a legal framework on economic activity. — Thomas Piketty

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

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. — Larry Wall

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not. — Lenny Abrahamson

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers

I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons. — H.D. Smith

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories. — Jim Wallis

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. — Mal Peet

I don't want to be lumped into any categories. — Corey Feldman

We can never know ... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories? — Charlotte Rampling

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. — Preston Manning

Balance only happens in dynamic tension. Balance is giving not equal but appropriate attention to each of the various categories of your life. — Michael Hyatt

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. — John Legend

an epiphany: every lesson I learned fell into better management of one of three categories: my time, my attention, and my energy. — Chris Bailey

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert

Man is divided into two categories; men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

things in this life can be separated into two categories: Things that are valuable and things that matter. — Jim Stovall

Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. — Stanislas Dehaene

Silence came in two categories, quiet and painful, or quiet and comfortable. — Catherine Bybee