How To Categorize Quotes

#1. I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Steve Martin

#2. I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

Mindy Kaling

#3. To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify

Charles Eisenstein

#4. I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

Laura Nyro

#5. I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

Elayne Boosler

#6. People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react ... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

Arthur M. Jolly

#7. The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody

Clay Shirky

#8. You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it.

Jane Roberts

#9. Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or ... I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know

Jennifer Aniston

#10. I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

Roger Ebert

#11. We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

#12. 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

#13. I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

Kevin Spacey

#14. In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#15. Males categorize their worlds by counting, naming, and organizing the objects they confront. Women, in addition to personalizing their topics, talk in a more dynamic way, focusing on how their topics change. Discussions of change require more verbs.

James W. Pennebaker

#16. I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

Benjamin Carson

#17. It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!

Keegan-Michael Key

#18. Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read the labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what's inside

Gaby Rodriguez

#19. I submit these assorted pieces of evidence I'm unwilling to categorize!

Lemony Snicket

#20. I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alan Dershowitz

#21. What's a feminist?" Julie asked.
"Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are bicycles, which makes us basically useless to anyone of the fish persuasion. But it does categorize us as creatures who exist solely for the purpose of being ridden.

Dianne Dixon

#22. I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

Rachael Ray

#23. In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#24. Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

Jonathan Groff

#25. Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

Fatih Akin

#26. Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

Sharon Salzberg

#27. I think ... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Tom Stoppard

#28. If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

Sandra Bullock

#29. I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Angel Haze

#30. I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Austin Carlile

#31. To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit

Sunday Adelaja

#32. We cannot categorize sin if we are to live a life of holiness. God will not let us get away with that kind of attitude.

Jerry Bridges

#33. The mind always wants to categorize and compare,

Eckhart Tolle

#34. Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

John Legend

#35. I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

Chris Hardwick

#36. It's hard to categorize the half expressions, the ones which reside in between. But this morning, I'm calling Perry mad by sadwest.

Edmond Manning