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• I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

  Robert Klein

  Men, Work Out, Sound

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• The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.

  Christie Brinkley

  Giving, Really True

  "Christie Brinkley Makes Animal Activism A Family Affair". Interview with Andy Sabin, hamptons-magazine.com. November 13, 2013.

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• When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

  Arabella Weir

  Shopping, Eating, Bits

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• The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

  Serge Daney

  Tourism, Spread, Appropriation

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• Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.

  Denys Johnson-Davies

  Writing, Years, Fiction

  "Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006.

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• My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Careers, Choices, Parent

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• It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

  Paul Merton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Real

  "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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• In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think Ive been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

  Mare Winningham

  School, Thinking, Years

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• The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.

  Ben Brantley

  Long, People, Internet

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• One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

  Robert K. Massie

  Ideas, America, Majority

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

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• The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Quality, Way, Surprise

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• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  Gary McCord

  Hate, Trying, Sound

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• It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

  Prince Philip

  Children, Future, Hands

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

  Paul McDonald

  Being Yourself, Unique, Idols

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• At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

  Chyler Leigh

  Risk, Church, Fantastic

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

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• There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.

  Peter James

  Military, Years, Police

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• The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Fashion, Yesterday, Today

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• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Use, Able

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• It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.

  Natasha Henstridge

  Husband, Men, Smell

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• My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

  Dree Hemingway

  Actresses, My Favorite, Models

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• I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!

  Dylan O'Brien

  Girl, Fun, Interesting

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

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• I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Mom, Two, Dancer

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

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• The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.

  Sebastian Bach

  Thinking, Hot, Looks

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• Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Roots, Evil, Littles

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Expression, Causes, Emotion

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