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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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• 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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• There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

  Al Goldstein

  Men, Doors, Robots

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• I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

  Herman Kahn

  Moments, Whole

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• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Practice, Stories

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• It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Rome, America, United States

  "Islam versus the West". Interview with Amanda Griscom-Little, www.rollingstone.com. August 7, 2003.

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• When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

  Jennifer Beals

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

  Bill Kurtis

  Long, Life Is, Reason

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• I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

  Maximilian Schell

  Thinking, Views, Two

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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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• 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 wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

  Adrian Lyne

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

  George Stigler

  Faith, Directors, Fierce

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

  Adrian Lyne

  Challenges, Trying, Film

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• You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

  Matthew Vaughn

  People, Needs

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• If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

  Peter Falk

  Mind, Danger, Come Up

  "Columbo Star Peter Falk Dead at 83" by Brian Corder, www.imdb.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Let's have some new cliches.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Book

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• Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  William Safire

  Lasts, Plague, Superlatives

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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• There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Glasses, Focus

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• The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Comfort

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• All good things come to those who wait.

  Paullina Simons

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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