Sherman Alexie Quotes

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Sherman Alexie

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• I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Want
  • Stereotype
  • Naive

• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • History
  • Stereotype

• People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

  

  Amanda Harlech
  • Inspiration
  • Stereotype
  • Muse

• Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Food
  • Party
  • Effort

• Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Live
  • Bad
  • Want

• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Thinking
  • Clever
  • Politician

• Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

  

  George Clooney
  • Mother
  • Faster
  • Stereotype

• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Improvement
  • Ignorant
  • Stereotype

• I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Term

• I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Wells
  • Educated
  • Sophisticated

• People stereotype pop stars, but Christina Aguilera proves them wrong with her unique style and talent.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Style
  • Talent
  • Stereotype

• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Reason
  • Slave

• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  

  Alexander Gardner
  • Tradition
  • Japan
  • Stereotype

• I think any stereotyping is too much.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Stereotype

• And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Friends
  • Laughing
  • Stereotype

• I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Stereotype

• Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

  

  Julia Garner
  • Different
  • Part
  • Stereotype

• "Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Characters
  • Stereotype
  • Big Bang theory

• Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

  

  Mickalene Thomas
  • Women
  • Persons
  • Stereotype

• I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Easy
  • Athlete
  • Stereotype

• When something needs to get done and it doesn't get done, I take it personally. And that's just how you have to be.

  

  Mike Daniels
  • Done
  • Needs
  • Something

• Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

  

  Rene Russo
  • Thinking
  • Naive

• Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

  

  Josh Trank
  • Explore
  • Genre
  • Filmmakers

• Don't live up to your stereotypes.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Stereotype