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Quotes About Stereotype

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
~ Raul Castro
It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
I think I was told numerous times in the industry that nobody wants to watch a guy on a keyboard.
~ Sam Esmail
I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.
~ Paul Giamatti
I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Most of the time, being a Turk is either an excuse or a pretext for evil.
~ Orhan Pamuk
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois ! lol
~ Colum McCann
An educated woman is a stupid woman
~ Confucius
His maleness bores me. Nothing is so boring as the phallus, so inherently stupid and stupidly conceited.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
~ Walter Isaacson
Silicon Valley The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.
~ Walter Isaacson
It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
~ Walter Kirn
Ain't no shame in bein' a grocer but it's bitch and a half if they think that that's all you're good for.
~ Walter Mosley
I have a dark-skinned pigment and I lease new cars," Chime said. "You can't have dark skin and a new car in Clarkston without harassment.
~ Warren St. John
Krauthammer's Law: Everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise. I've had a fairly good run with this one.
~ Charles Krauthammer
He took Ed for a Southerner and tried to stay clear of him.
~ Charles Portis
Even now, as Special Guest Star, even here, in your own neighborhood. Two words that define you, flatten you, trap you and keep you here. Who you are. All you are. Your most salient feature, overshadowing any other feature about you, making irrelevant any other characteristic. Both necessary and sufficient for a complete definition of your identity:
~ Charles Yu
But the one that Wu can never quite get over was the original epithet: Chinaman, the one that seems, in a way, the most harmless, being that in a sense it is literally just a descriptor. China. Man. And yet in that simplicity, in the breadth of its use, it encapsulates so much. This is what you are. Always will be, to me, to us. Not one of us. This other thing.
~ Charles Yu
The son who got As in every subject, including English, now making a living as Generic Asian Man.
~ Charles Yu
They don't know what they want. They want cool Asian shit.
~ Charles Yu