Quotes with clichés

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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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