Margaret Spellings Quotes

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

People are always put in a box or slot.

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.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

People like to pigeonhole you.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

I hate to be categorized.

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.