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• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  Jeremy Lin

  Real, Bipolar, Perception

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• Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

  Mason Cooley

  Vacation, Pleasure, Prove

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• New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Important, Our Time

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.106, PublicAffairs

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• The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Time, Cutting, Reality

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• While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Sex, Agony

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• I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.

  Mark Nepo

  Thinking, Keys, Joy

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

  Barry Hannah

  Drinking, Feel Good, Stuff

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Distance, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Success is overrated.

  Keith Olbermann

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• Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

  Steve Perry

  Character, Poverty, Building

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• I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

  Chuck Close

  Important, Problem, Creation

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• The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  People, Movement, Revolution

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• When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Clothes, Comfort

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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• Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.

  India.Arie

  Zero, Laughing, Perception

  "Song: 'There's Hope'". 2006.

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• I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, People, Credit

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• Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate

  Al Pacino

  Love Is, Chocolate, Different

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• That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Rocks, Oil

  "Nightline", 2001.

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• I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

  Billy Connolly

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

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• The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, People, Innovation

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• I think twerking is overrated.

  Kate Upton

  Thinking, Twerking

  "Kate Upton Talks Friends, Fears And Guilty Pleasures For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The way I look at music, what I'm interested in is not necessarily creativity - in many ways I think creativity is overrated, actually. What I think is important is authenticity. I want to hear music that has the resonance of the people. I want to hear music that is an amplification of them. Because then, I can experience the people. But because the music has become so institutionalized, everyone is learning and regurgitating the same material in the same way.

  Stefon Harris

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

  Blake Butler

  Book, Reality, Enough Time

  Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Sharpness is overrated.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Sharpness

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• I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!

  Eric Thomas

  People, Want, Helping

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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