Quotes About Stereotype

People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop music.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.

Opparizio is a perfect target: rich, arrogant and Republican.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.

He'd played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could play wide receiver for the Harvard varsity football team.

There was a vividly clear class distinction between tech guys and finance guys. The finance guys saw the tech guys as faceless help and were unable to think of them as anything else.

East Germans are the Greeks of Germany," I say. "Be careful," she says.

Someone told me you were worshipping the devil with the punk rocks! he said, opening the jug. Ma walked into the apartment, and Grandpa repeated that I'd joined the devil-worshippers. With the punk rocks, he added proudly, liked he'd copped on to a new phenomenon.

I'm not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist.

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy.

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

I'm not a French singer.

It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.

When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.