Stereotype Quotes - Page 22

• 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

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• By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Art, Self

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• Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  People, Black, Ifs

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2009

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

  Andy Grundberg

  Photography, Repeats, Ads

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• Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Racist, Calling

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• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Fighting, Mind Blowing

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

  Paco Rabanne

  Goodbye, Women, Old Things

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• Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

  Frank Lampard

  Kind, Unfair, Footballer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

  Portia de Rossi

  Thinking, Dresses, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

  Carrie Underwood

  Oklahoma, People, Cows

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• Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Art, Drinking

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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• The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sweet, Greatness, Men

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• Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes.

  Janet Mock

  Pain, Fighting, Years

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

  Michael K. Williams

  Jobs, Compassion, People

  "Michael K Williams on drugs, guns and avocados". Interview With Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.

  Joan Nestle

  Color, Two, Flesh

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• Don't live up to your stereotypes.

  Sherman Alexie

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• I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Trying, Typecasting

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• The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Birthday, Racism

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• When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

  Alan Watts

  Communication, Unique, Men

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library

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• Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

  Robert D. Hare

  Successful, Ideas, People

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• The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

  Marilyn Wann

  People, Prejudice, Levels

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