Quotes with cliches

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• Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.

  ― Eugène Ionesco
  Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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• In every election in American history both parties have their clichés. The party that has the clichés that ring true wins.

  ― Newt Gingrich
  American statesman and author (1943 - )
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• News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

  ― Karl Kraus
  Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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• Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

  ― Brad Holland
  American basketball player (1956 - )
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• The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

  ― Burn Gorman
  British actor and musician (1974 - )
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• The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

  ― Ben Stiller
  American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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• The personal appropriation of clichés is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

  ― Serge Daney
  French movie critic
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• Using clichés is a substitute for thinking.

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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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
  English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• non-communication
• appropriation
• interesting
• substitute
• literally
• overnight

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