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106 Cliches quotes by 99 unique authors
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The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more…
— Ann Shulgin
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
— Stephen Fry
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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
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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Let's have some new cliches.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
— Steve Coogan
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All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the…
— Penelope Cruz
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All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
— Macaulay Culkin
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Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
— Jeff Daniels
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
— Harold Evans
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I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
— Michel Hazanavicius
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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…
— Robert Morgan
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Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
— Michael Nesmith
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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…
— Ron Paul
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It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the…
— Steven Pinker
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Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
— Miuccia Prada
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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
— William Safire
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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,…
— Jose Saramago
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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
— Dick Schaap
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The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
— Ben Stiller
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One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
— Matt Taibbi
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
— Evelyn Waugh
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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…
— John F. Kennedy
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