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
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
Alan Stern
I hate being categorized.
Alexis Ren
I like challenges, and I hate being categorized. It's always been a thing of mine.
I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
Alice McDermott
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
A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.
Anne Murray
We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.
Armin van Buuren
We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.
Billy Squier
In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
Blake McIver Ewing
I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had a line which was, 'Whenever I hear the word 'marketing,' it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.'
Brad Feld
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
Chris Wood
If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.
Daisy Shah
I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
Daniel Levitin
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.
David Perlmutter
The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.
David Rose
I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.
Dianne Reeves
I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'
Donatella Versace
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
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
Douglas Brinkley
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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.
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says 'open ethnicity.'
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or a writer who appealed to guys. This need to categorize was just exhausting.
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.
Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'
I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.
I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.
If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.
Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.
If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music. You just say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.
We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique.
I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.
It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.
I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.
Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
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.
We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.
Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.
I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
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!
There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a trend in animated features of all types to be a little bit cynical, if you will, to have a little bit of 'knowing' humor to them, kind of a wink to the audience.
