Stigma Quotes - Page 4

• I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

  Tom Waits

  Adventure, Poet

  "Poet or storyteller ?" by Nancy Smith, therumpus.net. September 26, 2011.

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• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Growing Up, People, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Generosity, Support

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• Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

  Mickey Kaus

  Want, Has Beens

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• Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of misunderstanding and stigmas, the young Smoak searches for love and acceptance, and his readers can’t help but find themselves becoming emotionally attached to him. His is an observant and encompassing story, noticing the brilliance of existence that others might take for granted. The sunsets written here are more lovely than in life.

  Jenny Boully

  Sunset, Acceptance, Lovely

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• I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

  John Waters

  Mean, Independent, Good Times

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• A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

  Zachery Ty Bryan

  Children, Opportunity, People

  "Where Are They Now? 'Home Improvement' star Zachery Ty Bryan turned his back on spotlight" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2012.

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• [Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.

  Jessie Sampter

  Women, Self, Law

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• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

  Elyn Saks

  Numbers, Community, Faces

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• There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

  Tory Burch

  Ambition, Four, Letters

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• Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

  Marya Mannes

  Beach, Men, Land

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are some that it doesn't bother. They actually think it brings enlightenment to the contributions that the Native Americans had in the establishment of our country, but I haven't come up with an idea. I'm not saying the name "Redskins" wasn't derogatory, but the actual changing the name to the Washington Redskins was an honorary move.

  Donte Stallworth

  Country, Moving, Native American

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• I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Actors, Our Society

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

  Warwick Thornton

  Teenager, Kids, Bored

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

  Pia Zadora

  Svengali, Long, Overcoming

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• My point is pot is no more and probably less harmful than alcohol is. I don't understand the stigma of not legalizing marijuana. And I don't even smoke it. I don't understand why. I don't get it.

  Julie Roginsky

  Marijuana, Alcohol, Pot

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Theres a stigma on the word therapy. People relate it to big problems. Thats something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  People, Healthy, Way

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• Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, Powerful, Knowing

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• Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Hero, Men

  "Why women find vampires hot" by Jeaniene Frost, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

  Vincent Piazza

  Thinking, Degrees, Stories

  "Meet the Four Stars of Jersey Boys". Interview with Chris Willman, parade.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.

  Aldo Leopold

  Children, College, Government

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.114, Oxford University Press

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• Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

  Brian Lindstrom

  May, Etc, Belief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Recovery, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.

  Barbara Warren

  Health, Issues, People

  "Experts Sound off On Why LGBT Health Concerns Need Special Attention" by Andrew M. Seaman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

  Shereen El Feki

  Country, Law, People

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