Quotes About Stereotypes

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

I think sometimes women are stuck in a type. I've never dated the same type. I fall in love with personalities, and they come in different packages.

My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

I'd gone my whole life with people expecting things I didn't seem capable of giving, so why should now be any different?

I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

A los blancos hizo Dios, A los mulatos San Pedro, A los negros hizo el diablo Para tizón del infierno.

Maria Clara did not faint, simply because the Filipinos do not know how to faint.

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men

Just because she was a girl, that didn't necessarily make her weaker than me.

Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you need combat soldiers, and especially if you need them in a hurry, don't put your time upon Negroes.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Do I look like a fag?" "I don't know what a fag looks like," Dave said. "And neither does anyone else.

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

Because that was what we all did—we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.