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Many people forgave him for his misstatements and his missteps because they generally liked his ability to fight, even if that became a cliché for some people, Trump’s detractors. – Timothy Hagle	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The feeling’s out of this world, it is so cliche, but it’s stuff you dream of as a kid. Yeah, to achieve it, I can retire a happy man tomorrow. – Matthew Fitzpatrick	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Vanity, oh hey. Hello! Camera on a phone that's a snatch in the day long been stolen in a cliche' 100 in a 120 moment of Bipolarity; have enough confidence to not only be Intelligent, Vintea's tea cups never looked so _________. Who laughed at everything and mainly has 2 looks. -this was not photographed and documented today- #2022 #runningformisspetiteUSA #crownup #dewup #glitter-jey #winxandeverythangfabulous #areyourhandscleanvictoria #wheresyoupearlsatheidi #heyshelbywheresyourgoldenhairat – Talesa Marie Chartrand	added by lilbabyteaze 1 year ago
It sounds cliché to say that, but John is a once-in-a-lifetime guy. He was a character, but a really good character. – Bernie Layne	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You know, it’s the oldest cliché in hockey, but the fourth one’s going to be the hardest and we’re fortunate to have the opportunity at home and we’ll be ready to go in Game 6. – Eric Staal	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well, we’re nine games in( 3-6-0), i think we’re done figuring it out here. We need to start putting together games. One night it’s the power play. One night it’s a little bit of a lull. One night it’s another thing. So we have to collectively come together and put together 60 full minutes. It sounds so cliche but all areas need to be riding together and that has n’t happened for us yet. – The Oilers	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Good news/Bad news. Good news : I just got vaccinated ! Bad news : I got it because I ’m 75. Ha ! the operation in NYC was smooth as silk( sorry about the cliché@BCDreyer!) and hosted to perfection by the US Army and National Guard. Thank you all, and thank you science. – Joan Collins	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's the cliche of the holiday season -- take care of and be inclusive of others, but I think what the pandemic has taught us, more than anything, is that it's important to go back to basics, to what really matters. – Jonathan Kanter	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I did the best as an actor to overcome the cliché-ness because I had to in order to keep working, i took those roles and then I used what my teachers had taught me and put the real feelings, even if it's a villain... I try to find what makes the person really that person. – James Hong	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Not to be cliche, but a picture is worth a thousand words. – Ryan Lau	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Its been extremely gratifying. This is what you work for: to win tournaments. It sounds cliche, (but) the journey makes it all that much sweeter, this week, though, it felt different. This final, I felt like I was just ready. – Jessica Pegula	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Fairways, greens, it sounds boring, it sounds cliche but that's what you need to do out here, look, it's not going to be easy over the weekend, you're going to make bogeys, you're going to make mistakes, it's going to happen. And if I can keep responding to those mistakes like I did today I'll be right there. – Rory McIlroy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's amazing and it just proves that if you put the work in, man, and it's something that it's so cliche, but that's the story of my life. – Pascal Siakam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It just proves that if you put the work in, man, and it's something that it's so cliche most of the time, but that's the story of my life, just going out there every single night, working hard to get to this level, and knowing that I have so much to learn and I have so much room to improve and grow. – Pascal Siakam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You hate to sound like a cliche, but are you better off than you were four years ago ? It's pretty simple, right ? ' It's the economy, stupid.' I think that's easy, people will vote for somebody they don't like if they think it's good for them. – Mick Mulvaney	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was all special, i suppose that sounds cliché, but it's true. Every bit of the production, from opening night to the last night of the tour. – Carol Channing	Found on CNN 5 years ago
All these cliché, black and white, jerky kind of figures that we don't pay much attention to anymore... it suddenly turns them into human beings. – Peter Jackson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not really the cliche of sitting around and eating a bag of potato chips and playing games, there is more to it and this is starting to explode and be a new world order that's taking over regular sports. – Alexander Bernstein	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
People sort of complain about the pace. Friends of mine from London find it really intense, but I thrive in that kind of environment, it’s sort of cliche?, but it’s motivating and inspiring. It feels incredibly open and boundaryless. You can barely speak English and be a New Yorker. New York takes anyone, accepts everyone. – Sienna Miller	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You’re not going to buy your way into working with an innovator and influencer like Tim, to do that, entrepreneurs have to surround themselves with the right people, persevere and follow their hearts. Not to sound cliche, but that’s what it takes to get your idea through in the world. – John Alexiou	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There was no real physical material that we could mimic, there was no found footage or anything of how he spoke. You know, the cliché is a picture says a thousand words, but it really is true, we tried to capture the essence of this man and his resilience that you could see in the pictures, you could read in the book. He's fiercely passionate and that's something I could really dial into. – Toby Jones	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared. – Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For me, it opens a broad spectrum of reflection about the image of Africa -- how is Africa represented, has been represented, has been broadcasted, has been framed and photographed, i want to break the cliche. ... To make people maybe understand that Africa is not an exotic idea. It's not just a mask that you can just put in your house as a decoration. – Photographer Selim Harbi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Vogue has been synonymous with fashion and photography ... for 100 years, it's the style bible, I mean that old cliché comes into play. – Editor Robin Muir	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Many people forgave him for his misstatements and his missteps because they generally liked his ability to fight, even if that became a cliché for some people, Trump’s detractors.

– Timothy Hagle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The feeling’s out of this world, it is so cliche, but it’s stuff you dream of as a kid. Yeah, to achieve it, I can retire a happy man tomorrow.

– Matthew Fitzpatrick

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Vanity, oh hey. Hello! Camera on a phone that's a snatch in the day long been stolen in a cliche' 100 in a 120 moment of Bipolarity; have enough confidence to not only be Intelligent, Vintea's tea cups never looked so _________. Who laughed at everything and mainly has 2 looks. -this was not photographed and documented today- #2022 #runningformisspetiteUSA #crownup #dewup #glitter-jey #winxandeverythangfabulous #areyourhandscleanvictoria #wheresyoupearlsatheidi #heyshelbywheresyourgoldenhairat

– Talesa Marie Chartrand

added by lilbabyteaze
1 year ago

It sounds cliché to say that, but John is a once-in-a-lifetime guy. He was a character, but a really good character.

– Bernie Layne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know, it’s the oldest cliché in hockey, but the fourth one’s going to be the hardest and we’re fortunate to have the opportunity at home and we’ll be ready to go in Game 6.

– Eric Staal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well, we’re nine games in( 3-6-0), i think we’re done figuring it out here. We need to start putting together games. One night it’s the power play. One night it’s a little bit of a lull. One night it’s another thing. So we have to collectively come together and put together 60 full minutes. It sounds so cliche but all areas need to be riding together and that has n’t happened for us yet.

– The Oilers

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Good news/Bad news. Good news : I just got vaccinated ! Bad news : I got it because I ’m 75. Ha ! the operation in NYC was smooth as silk( sorry about the cliché@BCDreyer!) and hosted to perfection by the US Army and National Guard. Thank you all, and thank you science.

– Joan Collins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's the cliche of the holiday season -- take care of and be inclusive of others, but I think what the pandemic has taught us, more than anything, is that it's important to go back to basics, to what really matters.

– Jonathan Kanter

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I did the best as an actor to overcome the cliché-ness because I had to in order to keep working, i took those roles and then I used what my teachers had taught me and put the real feelings, even if it's a villain... I try to find what makes the person really that person.

– James Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Not to be cliche, but a picture is worth a thousand words.

– Ryan Lau

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Its been extremely gratifying. This is what you work for: to win tournaments. It sounds cliche, (but) the journey makes it all that much sweeter, this week, though, it felt different. This final, I felt like I was just ready.

– Jessica Pegula

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Fairways, greens, it sounds boring, it sounds cliche but that's what you need to do out here, look, it's not going to be easy over the weekend, you're going to make bogeys, you're going to make mistakes, it's going to happen. And if I can keep responding to those mistakes like I did today I'll be right there.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's amazing and it just proves that if you put the work in, man, and it's something that it's so cliche, but that's the story of my life.

– Pascal Siakam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It just proves that if you put the work in, man, and it's something that it's so cliche most of the time, but that's the story of my life, just going out there every single night, working hard to get to this level, and knowing that I have so much to learn and I have so much room to improve and grow.

– Pascal Siakam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You hate to sound like a cliche, but are you better off than you were four years ago ? It's pretty simple, right ? ' It's the economy, stupid.' I think that's easy, people will vote for somebody they don't like if they think it's good for them.

– Mick Mulvaney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It was all special, i suppose that sounds cliché, but it's true. Every bit of the production, from opening night to the last night of the tour.

– Carol Channing

Found on CNN
5 years ago

All these cliché, black and white, jerky kind of figures that we don't pay much attention to anymore... it suddenly turns them into human beings.

– Peter Jackson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not really the cliche of sitting around and eating a bag of potato chips and playing games, there is more to it and this is starting to explode and be a new world order that's taking over regular sports.

– Alexander Bernstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People sort of complain about the pace. Friends of mine from London find it really intense, but I thrive in that kind of environment, it’s sort of cliche?, but it’s motivating and inspiring. It feels incredibly open and boundaryless. You can barely speak English and be a New Yorker. New York takes anyone, accepts everyone.

– Sienna Miller

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You’re not going to buy your way into working with an innovator and influencer like Tim, to do that, entrepreneurs have to surround themselves with the right people, persevere and follow their hearts. Not to sound cliche, but that’s what it takes to get your idea through in the world.

– John Alexiou

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There was no real physical material that we could mimic, there was no found footage or anything of how he spoke. You know, the cliché is a picture says a thousand words, but it really is true, we tried to capture the essence of this man and his resilience that you could see in the pictures, you could read in the book. He's fiercely passionate and that's something I could really dial into.

– Toby Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared.

– Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For me, it opens a broad spectrum of reflection about the image of Africa -- how is Africa represented, has been represented, has been broadcasted, has been framed and photographed, i want to break the cliche. ... To make people maybe understand that Africa is not an exotic idea. It's not just a mask that you can just put in your house as a decoration.

– Photographer Selim Harbi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Vogue has been synonymous with fashion and photography ... for 100 years, it's the style bible, I mean that old cliché comes into play.

– Editor Robin Muir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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