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• You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Song, Reason

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.155, Penguin

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• Being a martyr is highly overrated.

  Patricia Briggs

  Martyr

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.155, Penguin

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• Civilization is vastly overrated.

  Patricia Briggs

  Civilization

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Alpha & Omega: A Companion Novella to Cry Wolf”, p.56, Penguin

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• The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

  Hans Selye

  Elements, Research, Chance

  Hans Selye (1979). “The Stress of My Life: A Scientist's Memoirs”, New York ; Toronto ; Van Nostrand Reinhold

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• Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

  Dennis Rodman

  Player, White, Bird

  Dennis Rodman (1994). “Rebound: The Enduring Friendhsip of Dennis Rodman and Byrne Rich”, Crown Pub

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• I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.

  Salvador Dali

  Sex, Men, Painful

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• Being queen is overrated.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Queens

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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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• I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self Esteem, Issues, Lucky

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• Popularity is totally overrated.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Popularity

  "Kathleen Hanna Discusses ‘The Punk Singer’ Documentary And The Evolution Of Feminism". Interview with Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mind, Care, Approval

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• Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Growing Up, Princess, Want

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• The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

  Aleister Crowley

  Silly, Boredom, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.47, Weiser Books

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• Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Uncles, Eye

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• Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

  Richelle Mead

  Smart, Study, Copies

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• As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

  Richard Posner

  Mean, Thinking, Order

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• In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Opinion, Virtue, Moderation

  Barbara Taylor Bradford (1987). “A Woman of Substance”, Bantam

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• Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Adventure, Hands, Stability

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.149, Bantam

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• It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Smart, Men

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Simple, Men

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.288, Delacorte Press

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• I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Thinking, Clogging Up

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• Goodbyes are overrated.

  Neil Gaiman

  Goodbye

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

  Bridgit Mendler

  Geek, What You Love

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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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• that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

  Jim Fergus

  Reflection, Thinking, White

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.162, Macmillan

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