Cliche Quotes - Page 15

• Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Tears, Want

  "An improbable conversation: new Met exhibition attempts to mix and match Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada". Interview with Grace-Yvette Gemmell, www.politico.com. May 11, 2012.

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• It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

  Robert Plant

  Awards, Land, Achievement

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". "GQ" Interview, www.gq.com. November 6, 2011.

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• It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

  Steven Pinker

  Song, People, Brain

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Believe, Parent, Looks

  "You must be Joaquin". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2003.

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

  Susan Orlean

  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Latin, Reality, Break Through

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, War, Events

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• The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Book, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  Ann Shulgin

  Simple, Long Ago, Finding Yourself

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

  David Icke

  Men, Doe, Stories

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.

  Mindy Kaling

  Want, Might, Life Is

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Champion, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Hands, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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