Stereotype Quotes - Page 8

• The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Jobs, Business

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• What no woman or man needs is anyone telling them they are 'too fat' or 'too skinny.' That just adds to the many stereotypes out there about a person's weight.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Men, Weight, Skinny

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

  Tucker Carlson

  Important, Looks, Voters

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Differences, Reducing, Acknowledge

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

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• And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

  Paul Merton

  Laughing, Shyness, My Friends

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• I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

  Robert Crumb

  Cartoon, Culture, Classic

  "Roll right up, folks!" by Robert Crumb, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

  Jedediah Bila

  White, Dwarves, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• 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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• In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Real, Care, Posh

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  People, Community, Caricatures

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• I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Running, Yoga, Book

  "Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie shreds Brienne of Tarth for super-seductive photo shoot" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2014.

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• I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

  Clay Aiken

  Christian, Jesus, Fighting

  Today's Christian Magazine, November 2005.

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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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• 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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• I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Dream, Home, Reality

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• Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.

  Robert Griffin III

  Running, Thinking, Moon

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• Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, People, Plot

  "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.

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• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, Black, Citizens

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.417, Basic Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Nice, Men, Opposites

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