Quotations

"I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70."

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"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."

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"We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."

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"Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart."

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"When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised."

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"The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes."

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"I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate; it's that it's incomplete.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful."

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"Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes."

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"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.” –Harold Evans

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"Once you label me you negate me.” ― Søren Kierkegaard"

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"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.” ― C. JoyBell  C."

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation". ― Virginia Woolf

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"We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers

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"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful".

~ Margaret Mead

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"Beauty can be found in the most hideous places; if you remove the typical stereotypes of what beauty is, you will find the true beauty that dwells in everything"

~ Lauren Hinds

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""Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius"

~  Robert Hughes

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"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission"

~  Colin Powell

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""Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and clichés" ~  Harold Evans ."

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"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life"~ Steve Jobs

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"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful" ― Margaret Mead

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"There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter "        Danica McKellar

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"Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work" Sofia Vergara

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"We all use stereotyping all the time… Stereotyping is a kind of mental shortcut… The bad thing about stereotyping is that we all use it without knowing it"

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"You can't avoid stereotyping or judging somebody. You do it subconsciously"

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."“Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white" Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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"He cannot bear the thought of being a stereotype" ― Maya Lang

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"The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it" ― Criss Jami

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"When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title" ― Criss Jami

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"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing"

Ricky Martin

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"I think there's a stereotype of what a biker is, and I think that's one of the reasons people are shocked when they find out that I ride. I've been trying to break down the stereotypes and inspire new riders" Marisa Miller

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"Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear" Maria Shriver

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"I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotype "

Ryan Seacrest

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"Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is

ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliché"

Scarlett Thomas

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"In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category" Iain McGilchrist

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"In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people"

Forest Whitaker

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"I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community"

Abhishek Bachchan

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"You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't" J. C. Watts

 

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"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain"

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"Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something" Carolina Herrera

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"You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair" Kesha

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"There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else" Danica McKellar

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this".

Chinua Achebe

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“"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission"

Colin Powell

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“"The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail"

Marc Feigen Fasteau

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"Stereotypes need to be discarded" Pat Conroy 

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"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men

Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything"

―  Jane Austen, Persuasion

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"Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult"

 ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

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     "If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend"

    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

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"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman"

― Margaret Thatcher

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"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce

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"Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge". ~Andrea Dworkin

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"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." ~Shirley Chisholm

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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." ~Faith Whittlesey

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"I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married" ~Marlo Thomas

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"Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors." ~Evelyn Cunningham

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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." ~Anaïs Nin

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"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." ~Madonna Ciccone

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"I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy." ~Anonymous

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"You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman". ~Jane Galvin Lewis

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"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths." ~Lois Wyse

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"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men,their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." ~Susan B. Anthony

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"I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualifie

unqualified men in running our government". ~Frances Farenthold

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