Overcompensating Quotes

A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys.

Tom Hardy

Boys, People, Quality

"Inception hunk Tom Hardy admits: 'I've had sexual relations with men'". www.dailymail.co.uk. 28, July 2010.

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People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

Guy Browning

People, Overbearing, Organisation

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Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.

Babatunde Adebimpe

Song, Thinking, Missing

Source: pitchfork.com

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I've never had a quarterback run-driven offense. We don't run designed plays where we snap the ball directly to the quarterback and he's just running it. If the defense is cheating and overcompensating for your running back, then the quarterback needs to keep (it) honest.

Chip Kelly

Running, Cheating, Play

Source: www.sfgate.com

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Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going to do with it?" "I don't know. I was hoping their overcompensating sign would say, but it just says 'private property' and shouts lots of threats in capital letters, all of which I plan to completely ignore later.

Darynda Jones

Old Things, Downtown, Letters

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In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

Neil Jordan

Dream, Directors, Too Much

Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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