Cliche Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Hippie, Simple, People

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  Harold MacMillan

  Forever, May, Harm

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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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• 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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• I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

  John Scalzi

  California, Southern, Grew Up

  "John Scalzi: the internet's troll-slayer" by Erin McCann, August 27, 2013.

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• Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

  Andrew Bird

  Deception, Honest, Capacity

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, Salvation, Constant

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.

  W. S. Di Piero

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?

  Jack Nicholson

  Religious, Believe, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

  Lisa Ling

  Enjoy It While It Lasts, Trying, Sound

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

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• It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.

  Derek Hough

  Writing, Play, Want

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• Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Who I Am, Done, Today

  "Kristin Cavallari Talks Wedding Plans, Baby Camden And Beyonce For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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