Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

The camera cannot lie but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

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

Let's have some new cliches.

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.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

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.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

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.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

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

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

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.

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

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.

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

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

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.