Stereotype Quotes - Page 5

• All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

  Barbara Kruger

  Illustration, Violence, Pathetic

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.223, MIT Press

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• You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Fighting, Thinking, Perception

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• After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'

  Angie Harmon

  Sorry, Gay, People

  "QA: Angie Harmon on Raising Three Girls and 'Coming Out' as a Republican in Hollywood". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Reason, Engaging

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and he's too Spanish, he's too English."You fight all these stereotypes through all these boundaries, and you find a way to tap-dance through all these different genres and cultures through music - that's what Rebelution is.

  Pitbull

  Fighting, White, Hip Hop

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I used to get upset with the word Bollywood, and what it means in the West. The stereotype of us being dancing, singing, puppet showgirls. Indians are nearly one fifth of the world's population; we have one of the most prolific film industries in the world. When people used to ask me about it, or replicate what they think is Bollywood dancing, thinking that they're being funny, I used to get offended. But now I show them the stuff we do.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.

  Nia Long

  Needs, News, Stories

  "The Root Interview: Nia Long on 'Mooz-lum' and Motherhood". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.theroot.com. February 18, 2011.

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• People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.

  Deshaun Watson

  Running, School, Color

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.

  Andre Holland

  Mother, Character, Addiction

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

  Ira Glass

  Kids, Imagine, Broadcasting

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

  Clarence Thomas

  Confused, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I've had countless jihadis shut me down straightaway and say, "I'm not allowed to speak to any woman who is not my relative." But among the few I'm able to get through to, I think that being female makes me more approachable, soft, all the stereotypes of what female means.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Mean, Thinking, Female

  Source: www.politico.com

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• What's amazing about this show [Westworld], and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, [Dolores] she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Party, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Thinking, Light, Color

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• The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

  Ted Nelson

  Decision, Fields, Computer

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• There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

  Ezra Koenig

  Class, People, Walking

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

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• I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get to know them, and [decide] how you should feel about them.

  Fede Alvarez

  Character, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, when you think music-wise, and if you hang with me or you see me or whatever, the average person will be like 'oh yeah, she probably raps'. This is that stereotype and then I do what I do, so they're more like 'oh, I wasn't expecting this whatsoever'. This especially links with the idea of being a woman in this kind of work and within the footwork genre.

  Jlin

  Wise, Rap, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, World, Tables

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Government, Perfect

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• I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

  David Baldacci

  People, President, Flip

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• I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough.

  Whitney Cummings

  Girl, Self Esteem, Thinking

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