Quotes About Stereotype

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.

The cliché of the 'average immigrant' being an economic boon for the country only works when such exceptions are made to appear as though they are the rule.

Fortunately, given the state of criticism these days, lots of people miss—especially the feminists, who usually throw like a girl.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I'm not sure I'm going to like Don Mincher. I keep hearing that big southern accent of his. It's prejudice, I know, but every time I hear a southern accent I think: stupid. A picture of George Wallace pops into my mind. It's like Lenny Bruce saying he could never associate a nuclear scientist with a southern accent.

Plus he had this accent, like he was Canadian or something, so I figured he was probably harmless.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

You cannot accurately assume that all the dogs saved from a fight bust are vicious and unstable or that all pit bulls are biting machines waiting for their chance to attack. It may be easier and less expensive to think that way, but it's not true. Yes, if pit bulls attack, they're equipped to do the job well—they're strong, agile, and determined—and they may even have some genetic inclination to be aggressive toward other dogs, but nurture plays

Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and not a spindly six-eight either, but 232 pounds of meat and bone stacked vertically beneath a lop-sided smile and a defiant wedge of hair that gave him the appearance of an unfinished sculpture. His size always triggered unreasonable expectations.

All plots are cliche.

was so depressed last night I called one of those suicide hot lines. I reached a call center in Pakistan. They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.—Anonymous on the Internet

A short-haired Barbie would be an oxymoron.

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.

Just 'cause I'm the picture of manly perfection doesn't mean I don't have a brain.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun.

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Scratch a Russian, as the saying goes, and you find a Tatar.