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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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• I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

  Brad Pitt

  Loss, Winning, Next

  "Brad Pitt: Marriage is more than 'just a title'". www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pyramids, Design, Tiny

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• Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Views, Virtue

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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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• 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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• Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

  Margaret Millar

  Common Sense, Genius, Sparks

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• Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

  Dick Morris

  Winning, Political, Politics

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• Neymar is massively overrated.

  Neymar

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• Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Following Instructions, Relatable, Instruction

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

  Chuck Close

  Interesting, Problem, Creation

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

  Bridgit Mendler

  Geek, What You Love

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• All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

  Tom DeLonge

  Kids, Thinking, Funny Things

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• Balance is overrated.

  Thomas Leonard

  Balance

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• Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

  Greg Egan

  Has Beens

  Greg Egan (2010). “Distress”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

  Seth Godin

  Zero, Marketing, Followers

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

  David Remnick

  Journalism, Subjects

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• I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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