Quotes About Labeling

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

For too long, the producers of non-dairy beverages, such as almond and soy products, have unfairly benefited from the ability to label their products as milk.

We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box. It's kind of religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith.

But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

Calling a child rebellious has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school stupid. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Labeling a group a gang is thus as much a matter of selecting the right tools for countering it as it is one of understanding the organization itself.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labeled as irradiated meat.

One method—mental noting, where we label familiar thoughts as such without getting pulled into them—is quite helpful in working with our schemas.

We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you're labeled a racist.