Cliche Quotes

• I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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

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• I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

  Robert Morgan

  Encouragement, Ideas, Pay

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• Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

  Liam Neeson

  Inspiring, Time, Growing Up

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• Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

  Harold Evans

  Mean, Stereotype, Attempting

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• I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

  Sally Field

  Beautiful, Term

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• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  Marc Almond

  Opportunity, People, Tourism

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• It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

  Michael Pitt

  Sound, Wake Up, Ifs

  "Q&A with 'Last Days' star Michael Pitt". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.tailslate.net. July 21, 2005.

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• Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

  Lee Haney

  Children, Role Models, Parent

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• So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Pads, Sometimes

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• Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  Harold MacMillan

  Forever, Diplomacy, Secretary

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• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  Beck

  Thinking, Generations, Missions

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• In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Winning, Politics

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• Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

  Ron Paul

  Powerful, War, Real

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• I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

  Cameron Diaz

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

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• It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

  Stephen Fry

  Comedy, Unfaithful, Untrue

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography”, Random House Incorporated

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• I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Thinking, Tables, Table Manners

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

  Charles Olson

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• Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

  Dick Schaap

  Adjectives, Prose

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• If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

  Lewis Thomas

  Responsibility, Reality, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

  Jennifer Beals

  Nice, Fighting, Men

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

  Ben Stiller

  Plot, Generic

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• Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

  Alan Perlis

  Humorous, Technology, Needs

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

  Paul Muldoon

  Buoys, Sometimes, Get Away

  Interview with Paul Muldoon, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. 1996.

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