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• I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

  Brad Pitt

  Thinking, Goal, Would Be

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• To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ocean, Tree, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

  Peter Thiel

  Fighting, Practice, Competition

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• This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

  Brad Pitt

  Crazy, Dark, Ideas

  "The Many Revolutions of Brad Pitt" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

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• No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

  Gena Showalter

  Long, Without Love, Worth Living

  "Unraveled". Book by Gena Showalter, 2010.

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• Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

  Rihanna

  Being Single, Single Life, Life Is

  "Rihanna: 'Single Life Is Overrated'" by Phil Boucher, Liz Raftery, people.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Branding is overrated.

  Regis McKenna

  Branding

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• Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

  Ian Mckellen

  Democracy, Cable Tv, Care

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• Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Pleasure, Pastime

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• The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy. Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league who can say they've got great numbers. But they can't say they've got four rings in the last six years.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Numbers

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• I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Want, Dies

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.221, Bantam

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• The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

  Adam Langer

  What Matters, Stories, Spelling

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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• Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

  Quentin Crisp

  Home, Two, Culture

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• Being human is overrated.

  Mark Penn

  Being Human, Humans

  "Clinton's Road to Second Place" by Jackie Calmes, www.wsj.com. June 04, 2008.

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• Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Sorrow, Bills

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• Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Unhappy, Affair, Enjoy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Crash, Used

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• Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

  David Remnick

  Journalism, Subjects

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• Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Sadness, Important, Fleeting

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• I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Believe, Done

  "American Gods". Book byNeil Gaiman, Chapter 13, 2001.

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• I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

  William H. Macy

  Character, Tricks, Firm

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• Uggs. I think they're ugly. And I think big sunglasses are kind of overrated. I like big sunglasses but not those huge, round ones.

  Justin Bieber

  Thinking, Uggs, Sunglasses

  "Justin Bieber Talks About His First Kiss". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Following Instructions, Relatable, Instruction

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• Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

  Larry McMurtry

  Understanding, Mystery, Underrated

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• A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

  Rachel Vincent

  Smart, Shut Up, Hell

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.177, MIRA

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