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Quotes About Stereotype

Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve.
~ Tony Kushner
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
~ Tori Amos
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
~ Tori Amos
It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
~ Tori Spelling
He had his very own "little white girl" without taking the hit of her actually being white.
~ Unknown
Well-meaning friends suggest that I should drop the word "feminist," and perhaps the entire concept, because feminism is so "old hat." Young women today have lost interest in feminism because they believe it's antisex and that all feminists are man haters. Let me tell you something, girlfriends. That's exactly what the powers-that-be want us to think and do.
~ Tristan Taormino
The fundamental attribution error is simply this: human beings tend to falsely attribute the negative behaviors of others to their character (an internal attribution), while they attribute their own negative behaviors to their environment (an external attribution).
~ Patrick Lencioni
There is a proverb in Ireland,' said Stephen, 'to the effect that there is good to be found even in an Englishman – is minic Gall maith. It is not often used, however.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.
~ Unknown
I'm a burger and brew guy in a paté and Chardonnay world. I'm as health conscious as the next guy, as long as the next guy is sitting on a bar stool. FALSE DAWN http://tinyurl.com/64qngk5
~ Paul Levine
He had strawberry blond hair. That's enough right there. That's all you need to know. If you're a man with strawberry blond hair and you're not in the circus or a Viking, odds are you have not found your place in life and never will.
~ Paul Neilan
An implication in all books about the country is that, though Europeans successfully emigrate to Mexico and become Mexican, no American can follow suit: the gringo remains incorrigibly a gringo.
~ Paul Theroux
If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.
~ Dave Barry
Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.
~ Michael Jai White
It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
~ Colleen McCullough
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
~ Herman Melville
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
~ Ice T
If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.
~ Ralphie May
Look what he married. Would you want to be her? She's a nice woman, but her greatest accomplishment is making three-dimensional snowflakes and Easter bunnies from Martha Stewart's book. Come on, Fiona, you don't want to be that.
~ Danielle Steel
His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband—say, forty—with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Never again will I underestimate the persuasive power of a woman with legal training and big tits.
~ Dave Barry
I realize I am generalizing here, but, as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.
~ Dave Barry
All Scots are engineers, and all engineers are Scots.
~ David Brin