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Quotes About Stereotypes

There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, "GOD***N, YA SONOFABITCH!" and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar.
~ black lewis ii
Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time.
~ Blake Bailey
Un hombre de negocios se enamora de la prostituta a la que contrata para que le acompañe un fin de semana: Pretty Woman.
~ Blake Snyder
The minute you let other people label you, you let them take away your power.
~ Bliss Broyard
Look like barbie, Smoke like marley.
~ Bob Marley
I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.
~ Bobby Cannavale
Trzeba by?o poznawa? kobiety nie przez okulary Mickiewiczów, Krasi?skich albo S?owackich, ale ze statystyki, która uczy, ?e ka?dy bia?y anio? jest w dziesi?tej cz??ci prostytutk?.
~ Boles?aw Prus
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
If a film needed an exotic backdrop… Chinatown could be made to represent itself or any other Chinatown in the world. Even today, it stands in for the ambiguous Asian anywhere.
~ Bonnie Tsui
It is discouraging to find a woman who knows much about theoretical chemistry, and who cannot properly wash and iron a shirt.
~ Booker T. Washington
Both middle-aged people and young people enjoy a play about young lovers; but only middle-aged people will tolerate a play about middle-aged lovers; young people will not come to see such a play, because, for them, middle-aged lovers are a joke—not a very funny one.
~ Booth Tarkington
The man made a huffing noise and looked away. Norm shrugged. "You'd think he never saw a Jew before." "He probably hasn't," Win said. Norm looked back over at the ruddy-faced man. "Look!" Zuckerman said, pointing to his head. "No horns!" Even Win smiled. Zuckerman
~ Harlan Coben
And what kind of warped mind names a kid Tito Marshall? Bad enough to go through life with a moniker like Myron. But Tito Marshall? No wonder the kid had turned out as a neo-Nazi. Probably started out as a virulent anti-Communist. Victoria
~ Harlan Coben
We all have our demon. But men? They have them much worse. The world tells them that they are the leaders and great and macho and have to be big and brave and make a lot of money and lead these glamorous lives. But they don't, do they? [...] Women, we get it. Life is about a certain kind of drudgery. We are taught not to hope or want too much. Men? They never get that.
~ Harlan Coben
People, Win knew, made snap judgments based on appearances. No great insight there. And yes, there were the obvious prejudices against African-Americans or Jews or what-have-you. But Win was more concerned with the more garden-variety prejudices. If, for example, you see an overweight woman eating a doughnut, you are repulsed. You make snap judgments—she is undisciplined, lazy, sloppy, probably stupid, definitely lacking in self-esteem. In
~ Harlan Coben
She shakes her head. Cops would be better at their jobs if God gave them bigger dicks. You're a cop. Me especially.
~ Harlan Coben
For one thing, Cole could have passed for Win's brother—blond, patrician-featured, well-to-do family. While everyone else in the picture was scraggly and long haired, Cole was freshly shaven with a conservative haircut, his one sixties concession being sideburns that went down a tad too far. Hardly your Hollywood-cast, radical leftist. But as Myron had learned from Win, looks could often be deceiving. He
~ Harlan Coben
Most people assumed that the vast majority of destructive trolls harassing people were unemployed losers furiously posting from Mommy's basement, but more often than not, they were educated, employed, financially comfortable enough.
~ Harlan Coben
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
~ Harper Lee
See there? Jem was scowling triumphantly. Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin
~ Harper Lee
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
~ Harper Lee
Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them. Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
~ Harper Lee
I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.
~ Harper Lee
Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.
~ Harper Lee