Social Stereotype Quotes

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation, or a distinct group by its least worthy members.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

You know where nice people end up? On welfare.

No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout.

I'm not feminist, by the way. I am just an artist.

I think there's definitely a stereotype of white privilege, and that stereotype gets expanded to mean rich, not oppressed, not suffering, et cetera. And yes, it's a misperception.

When I go to a bar or a party, I feel like a student invited me to the kegger, and I actually ended up going. And everyone's shocked: "Oh, my god, professor, I didn't know you were actually going to come!" That's me in any circle, really, especially when I hang out with my brother's friends.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

I'm not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.

I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.