Viv Albertine Quotes

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

You judge people as you meet them.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

I always say, if you want to judge a person, see what he/she laughs at.

We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.