We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.