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That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

Life God Me You

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 the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

War Real Will End

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

Charles Bukowski

Love Style Think Writing

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

Me Live Want Glamorous

Let's have some new cliches.

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

World I Am Journalism Something

I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.

People Matter Way Indian

Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

You New Know Why

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

Time New Innovation Unique

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

True Like Most Then

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I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

Me My Own Own Finding

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Beauty Fashion Want Tear

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Think Like Manners About

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 left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

People Brain Song Words

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

Life Think Hollywood Small

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

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 nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Alone Reality Problems Nothing

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or a magnet on your fridge saying whatever cliches and bon mots, pictures laid out with some text are passed around and move really fast.

Internet Door Whatever Your

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

New Always Need Field

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

History Election True Ring

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

You Yourself End Try

The cliches that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy. The fact is that he's his own man. He's witty, he's profound, he can be incredibly funny, and he's an extremely bright guy.

Reinhold Messner

Funny Man Media About

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Like Plague Avoid Last

I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

Life Man Long Time

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Terrence Malick

People Important Something About

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

Health Genius Fine Mental Health

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