Stereotype Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Thinking, Media, Advertising

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• Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

  Nat Wolff

  Teenager, Book, Filled

  Source: variety.com

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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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• Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

  Eddie Trunk

  Perception, Prove, Metals

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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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• 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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• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

  Mary Daly

  Change, Inspiring, Doe

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

  Bjork

  Believe, Interviews, Spirit

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• Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

  Jo Brand

  Dragons, Bird, Sitcom

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

  John Cusack

  Islamic, Black And White, Evil

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• (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

  Jacques Ellul

  Character, Two, Manipulation

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• I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

  Robert Redford

  Character, Actors, Kind

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• It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Stars, Opportunity, Abuse

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2010.

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• In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

  Ricky Schroder

  Trying, Savages, Culture

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• Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

  Maria Shriver

  People, Trying, Special

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• Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Rights, Looks

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• At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, Who I Am, Challenges

  "British rapper Tinie Tempah gets up close & personal with Serial Optimist". Interview with Rawiya Kameir, www.serialoptimist.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  United States, Common, Obsession

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?

  Brian Thompson

  Hero, Play, Voice

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• Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

  Guy Burgess

  Change, Two Sides, Evil

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• But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Mistake, Believe

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Children, Writing, Learning

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