Cliche Quotes - Page 6

• I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Hate, Stereotype, I Hate

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• Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

  Cyril Connolly

  Eye, Facts, Tomorrow

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• That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Christmas, Flower, Light

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.

  Thomas Merton

  Moving, New Beginnings, Worry

  Thomas Merton (2008). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.90, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.

  Tika Sumpter

  Dream, Love You, Love Life

  "Sparkle Break-out Star Tika Sumpter". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.ebony.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

  Michael Easton

  Baby, Home, World

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• I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

  Nastia Liukin

  Goal, Trying, One Day

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• To move past fear is a cliche.

  Tony Abbott

  Moving, Past

  "Religion, Sex and Politics". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. March 19, 2009.

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• All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

  S. J. Perelman

  Sweet, Women, Missing

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

  George Packer

  Broken, Senate

  "Transcript: George Packer on ‘The Empty Chamber’". Interview with Tom Casciato, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2010.

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• What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Fashion, May, Today

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• Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

  Daryl Hall

  Artist, Trying, Ends

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• New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

  Ned Sublette

  Practice, Keys, New Orleans

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• It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

  Mark Gatiss

  Fun, Lying, Roles

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• When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Tired, Mean

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• The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

  George Steiner

  Freedom, Opposites, Brutality

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.311, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliché to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Actors, Littles

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

  Joe Dante

  Epic, Technology, Imagination

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• Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

  Julian Cope

  Use It Or Lose It, Use, Loses

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have to learn from it to move on. When you're doing something live, there's no time to dwell. Hopefully you'll laugh it off, but if not, you can always take a day to hate yourself.

  Nina Arianda

  Hate, Mistake, Moving

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Ends

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• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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