Stereotypes Quotes

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.
Michelle Bachelet

Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
Juan Williams

Children, Black, Show

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
Sarah Silverman

Humor, Facts, Focuses

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.
Michelle Bachelet

Dreams, Home, Reality

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.
Joan Chen

Down, Different, Play

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'
Carson Kressley

Place, Minds, Hear

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.
James Iha

Sure, Yeah, Asian

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.
Louise Mensch

Great, Enjoy, Challenge

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
John Shelton Reed

Nature, Looks, Changing

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi Wolf

Women, Material, Western

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

Through, Walk, Exist

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
Donald Glover

Black, Put, Kids

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.
Jeremy Lin

Fight, Saying, Quick

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
Gregg Easterbrook

Present, Appreciate, Exist

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
Gregg Easterbrook

History, Live, Christian

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
David Baldacci

Good, Bad, Read

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
Ted Nelson

Decisions, Point, Carry

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

America, Fair, Losers

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.
Danny Pudi

Happen, Try, Avoid

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
Jody Watley

Woman, Writing, Same

I've never liked to play stereotypes.
Michael Welch

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
Siouxsie Sioux

Time, Women, Down

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
Larry Wachowski

Why, Wanted, Wonder

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
Al D'Amato

Special, Sensitive, Ethnic

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

Past, Able, Move

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.
Mako

Fighting, Reason, Show

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.
Lavrenti Lopes

Change, Fight, May

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