Quotes About Stereotypes

Let me make sure I have this straight. A guy can not be looking for love because it'll complicate his easy life. But a woman has to have all sorts of trauma to make her like that?

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Perhaps dragons were a Northern thing, like flat caps and an ingrained sense of grievance.

Now, for solid historical reasons, I'm not comfortable with dividing people up into groups.

African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Gaston was a short, bulky man in his late fifties who favoured tight jeans, studded belts and sleeveless T-shirts, the better to show off the tattoos on his own arms. Only the absence of a mullet or a purple Mohican saved him from a breach of the EU directive against egregious cliché embodiment.

Manchester University was an odd choice, though—posh kids that fail to reach Oxbridge generally go to Bristol, Edinburgh or, for the true walk of shame, Exeter.

All of this, Silver reckoned, went double for Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn't really believe it.

You could say I'm so manly I don't even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions

That's the problem with educating girls' said Spode, bitterly, 'they never stop resorting to fact.

That's the problem with educating girls. They never stop resorting to fact.

It is the reason that the right consistently loses the black and Hispanic vote – not because the right's policies are so abhorrent to blacks and Hispanics, but because blacks and Hispanics have been told for generations that conservatives hate them.

The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

You don't need to belong to any particular class or ethnicity to be a nerd, but some ethnic stereotypes are nerdier than others.

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests.

When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that didn't exist - but I knew black doctors. And I knew black lawyers. And I knew families that, you know, had a mother and a father and kids that were well-behaved.

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We've always liked curves, and a lot of people misunderstood it because let's face it: 20 years prior to 'Baby Got Back,' the only images you saw of a black woman on television were she was probably 300 pounds and cleaning the house with a rag on her head.

The way I see queerness now is that, best case scenario, another queer person reflects it back at you. Worst case scenario, which is what happened to me, is having people say, Well, you like Michelle Branch, so you must be gay.'

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like 'Parenthood.' I didn't feel the need to change anything I was doing - I embraced it.

I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny.

I've always refused to buy into the idea that I should look a certain way. People say I don't conform to the idea of what an actress should look like, but I am what I am and that's fine.