Categories Quote by Alan Cumming Download Open image “I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.” — Alan Cumming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Categories Deny People Thinking
People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't. — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way. — CL Copy Share Image
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
People always want to categorize you and say oh, you are in this category, but there is nothing that I limit myself to doing.… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. — John Legend Copy Share Image
I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“I really wanted to show that it wasn’t all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image