Categorize
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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
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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
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.
Travie McCoy
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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Rachael Ray
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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
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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
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If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
Haley Reinhart
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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
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
Johnny Otis
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It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.
James Marshall
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Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
Jason Priestley
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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
Laura Nyro
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I would not openly categorize myself as a sullen teenager, but that kind of role comes more easier to me than a bright, perky thing.
Morgan Saylor
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It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.
Michael Buble
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In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
Mark Hamill
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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
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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
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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
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
Earl King
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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Evelyn Glennie