Simon Travaglia Quotes

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

I became stereotyped.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

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

All labels are offensive in some way.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Labels are for cans, not people.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

People label you the way they know you best.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

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