Overused Quotes

• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

  Ben Affleck

  Talent, Being Me, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

  Richard Donner

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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• Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Genius, Half, World

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• I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

  Artur Davis

  Black And White, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

  Hilary Duff

  Soulmate, Real, Soul Mate

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Doe, Tools

  "Rian Johnson, ‘Looper’ Director, On ‘Breaking Bad’ And The Problem With ‘Star Wars’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

  Marlee Matlin

  Hard Work, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

  Yvon Chouinard

  Travel, Adventure, Patagonia

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• I feel a particular sense of responsibility when you're taking something from the magazine directly and putting it in video. You can't be too flat. You need to have personality. You can't just scream out to the viewer. You need to have a fresh take on something or have a new look or have an interesting style, or be so raw that it resonates and is authentic. I think authentic is a good word. It's overused, I know, but I think it comes across in the video medium. If you can make a video authentic, it comes across.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Responsibility, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: wwd.com

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• A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin Timberlake, too. Now, I just don't get it. Production values are boring; songwriting has gotten worse - the choruses on a lot of popular hip-hop songs are especially bad. The rappers hit their flow in the verses, then when they try to sing, it's a mess. And just like the airbrush tool in Photoshop, Autotune is way overused. It's not a toy!

  Jorge Elbrecht

  Song, Rapper, Appreciate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.

  Bruce Campbell

  Dog, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

  Alan Rickman

  Writing, Character, Journey

  "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.

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• I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
  
  Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
  Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, Views, Two

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

  Sark

  Exclamation Points, Use, Exclamation

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• I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

  Biz Stone

  Real, Moving, Communication

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

  A-Trak

  Thinking, Important, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Love can become overused.

  Hannes Holm

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Fearless, Actors

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

  Elie Saab

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Attitude, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

  Louis C. K.

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

  "Louis C.K. on the Importance of Acting Like an Asshole". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.

  George Lucas

  Baby, Smart, Thinking

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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