#clich

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 hit pay dirt. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#cliches #dirt #encourage #enough #far

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#cabbage #child #cliched #cut #destroy

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, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#chop #cliche #come #guests #hang

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#alone #any #arise #civilians #cliche

It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#belt #belts #cliche #comfortable #day

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids. ↗

— Hope Solo

#especially #fun #hate #have fun #i

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

— Stephen Fry

#cliches #like #most #then #true

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#adding #anything #between #big #big difference

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#cliches #devices #feel #i #like