Stereotype Quotes - Page 18

• People in general misunderstand me. I'm very aware of the stereotype that comes with being a basketball player. But I'm well-rounded. I'm cultured. It's funny: When I speak, people are like, "Wow! You can really talk." I'm like, "What did you expect?"

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Player, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mom, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Anger, Men

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• Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  Gay, People, Political

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

  David R. Mains

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Mind

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Mammy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Character, Wind, Laughing

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.16, Kodansha America

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• Some people think that Southern hip-hop doesn't have any depth. They think it's just noise, all about people having a good time in the club. And some of it doesn't have a lot of depth, it's true, but some does. I wanted to work against that stereotype. These are verses by Southern artists who are really wrestling with what it means to be here, young black men who are trying to figure out how to live in the South. So I wanted the epigraphs in my novels to reflect that.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mean, Wrestling, Artist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, People, Males

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• We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

  Richard Whately

  May, Opinion, Print

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.40

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• When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling.

  Nicole Miller

  People, Guilt, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
  girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

  Jennie Finch

  Beautiful, Girl, Softball

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• I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering. We're addicted to this idea because it makes for good bio pics... but I actually think it's better to live a life where you're constantly exploring your curiosity and creativity.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Thinking, Order

  "Author Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Big Magic' is a creative life". "CBS This Morning" with Norah O'Donnell, Gayle King and John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2015.

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• One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .

  Ellen Page

  Reading, Special, Something Special

  "Ellen Page & Michael Cera Interview - Juno". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. December 22, 2007.

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• In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Writing, Offending, Laughing

  "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.

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• Emergence of Muslim communities in their own lands. They let in millions of people from a radically different culture and background. The Europeans have to ask themselves if all these people can be integrated. This has led to major problems. And...I do not stereotype all Muslims.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Land, People, Community

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People hear me talk and they know my background and they immediately stereotype me as being a real, real country guy, and that's the right stereotype. But you also want people to know you're a little broader than that, too.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Real, People

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• Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character is probably the sex object. I think those stereotypes have been reproduced over and over again. It also changes our expectations when it comes to a situation like this in real life.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Sex, Real, Hero

  Source: collider.com

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• The reliance on stereotypes is in part the result of a structural problem within the media. Most newspapers have a business beat, with a number of highly trained journalists who know how to cover companies, trading, the markets and so on. But almost none have labor reporters anymore, and to my knowledge, none have full-time poverty-beat correspondents. And all of this helps to render invisible the lives and the life stories of tens of millions of Americans.

  Sasha Abramsky

  Helping, Problem, Invisible

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

  Ayana Mathis

  Strong, Black, Black Women

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It was all very naïve. Of course, the only part of the stereotype that has proven true is the suffering and the starving. Now, my fantasy of scribbling poems in a tower is gone, but an anxiety about reviews, book sales, and awards has taken its place.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Book, Taken, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a negative stereotype about a group is relevant to performance on a specific task, it is referred to as "stereotype threat." Individuals who are highly identified with a particular group may experience increased susceptibility to stereotype threat.Understanding perceptions and why they may exist helps to explain and demystify tension and conflict that surfaces as a result of generational discord.

  Chip Espinoza

  Understanding, Perception, Negative

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In terms of feminism, I would just ask young women to keep an open mind about it and try to learn about it before they write it off or believe the negative stereotypes that surround it. Feminism can help you on a personal level, it can offer you an incredible community of brilliant and impassioned people, and can change the way you see the world if you just open yourself up to it. I think that goes for all causes as well.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's always been important to me to be very upfront with people about the fact that I do identify as a feminist because it's an opportunity to expose people to and educated them about the movement. Young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and don't have a comprehensive understanding of what it is, I gave them example and an opportunity to ask about it. And once they saw that I wasn't the embodiment of the negative feminist stereotype - that I was a normal teen girl just like them - I think they became more open to learning about what feminism really is.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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