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• ...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

  Andy Grundberg

  Photography, Repeats, Ads

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• If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

  Carrie Vaughn

  Vampire, World, Might

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• You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

  Kesha

  People, Unfair, Boxes

  "Ke$ha: 'You don't tell Alice Cooper what to do'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, Math, Empowering

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

  Robert Morgan

  Break Through, Asian, Watches

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• Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Gay, Different, Firsts

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

  Robert Morgan

  Encouragement, Ideas, Pay

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• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  Yoko Ono

  Night, Thinking, Giving

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• I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

  Patton Oswalt

  Nerd, Outcast, Felt

  "Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die". www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Erotic, Style, Identity

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• Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

  Godfrey

  Complaining, World, Want

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• We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Special, Purpose

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• To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.

  Beth Moore

  Children, Regret, Fall

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• I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful.

  Penn Dayton Badgley

  Beautiful, Girl, Glasses

  Source: collider.com

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• People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."

  Esther Perel

  Growing Up, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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• To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Black

  "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

  Dorothy West

  Fighting, Desire, Quality

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• It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Teenage, Roles, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

  Michael Caine

  Talking, Class, Ideas

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• Don’t stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group,” I said.

  Kim Harrison

  Hate, Opportunity, Groups

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• The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, War, Hangover

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• The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Believe, Tea

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