Stereotype Quotes - Page 6

• Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

  Terry Eagleton

  Odds, Syntax, Literature

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.

  Iris Apfel

  Summer, School, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

  Forest Whitaker

  Moving, Character, Past

  "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.

  Marisa Tomei

  Too Much, Lucky

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• Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Hippie, Simple, People

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• Donald Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dog, Offering, President

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• If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, Italian, People

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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Ignorance, Hair, Speak English

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• The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes the myth of liberal tolerance as she relates her interactions with liberals in everyday life. This narrative, interlaced with commentary and impressions, gives us insight into liberals that books merely about abstract principles do not capture. A fascinating read.

  David Limbaugh

  Book, Unique, Voice

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• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Ignorant, Savages, Improvement

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• We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

  Donald Glover

  Kids, Thinking, Black

  "Childish Gambino Is Trying To Be A Grown-Up". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 15, 2011.

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• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people dont know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  Faran Tahir

  People, Culture, Where You Come

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• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.

  Joe Biden

  Powerful, Doors, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

  Johnny Galecki

  Revenge, Sight, Air

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• I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

  Mike Leigh

  Trying, Life Experience, First Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Winning, Issues, People

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• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  Gary Cherone

  People, Break, Vans

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• I think a fear of portraying something negatively ends up creating more stereotypes. Like a fear of going into these negative feelings that I have had and a lot of women that I've spoken to have had creates these sort of plasticky women.

  Sophia Takal

  Thinking, Feelings, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Hurt, Book

  "Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Effort, Smashing

  "The eunuchs are whining". townhall.com. November 1, 2001.

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• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  Maureen Dowd

  Clever, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

  Michael K. Williams

  Believe, Mean, Character

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

  Bill McKibben

  Principles, Might, Easy

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.

  Rakim

  Bed, Sides, Crumbs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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