Siouxsie Sioux Quotes

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.

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

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.

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.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.

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.

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

People like to pigeonhole you.

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

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.

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

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

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.

That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.

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

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

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