Quotes About Stereotype

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are.

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car.

You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.

If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.

You might be a redneck if the hood and one door are a different color from the rest of your car.

You might be a redneck if you keep a fly swatter in the front seat of the car so you can reach your kids in the back seat of the car.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".

What does the ideal Aryan look like? As tall as Goebbels, as slim as Göring, as blond as Hitler.

In the course of these pages, I have called the idea of the mysterious woman a cliché, and so it was. But, like other clichés, it has a certain psychological reality.

Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

It looks," Lotze said, gazing down, "as if it was designed by a Jew.

the massively built old man was tired, despite his customary show of energy. I guess when you get up into that bracket, Herbert decided, you have to act in a certain way; you have to appear more than a human with merely ordinary failings.