Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

I feel we have the opportunity of being part of a new and emerging category for human co-experience.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

There's a lot of smart women doing dumb things with their health, and I fell into that category as well.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

I don't think the narrative I was stuck in - the 'black' designer category - was going to go away anytime soon.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!

I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'

Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

I consider myself a woman. I happen to fall into the transgender category, but I rather describe myself as a woman first.

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

We need to make sure F1 stays the quickest category of all, and GP2 is not that far away, so that's a little bit worrying.

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

I can easily get a gold in the 48 kg. category, but 51 kg., it's difficult because other boxers may have a height advantage.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.

There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

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