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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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• 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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• I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Role Models, Roles

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• Having everything your way is highly overrated.

  Joyce Meyer

  Way

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• Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Doors, Unity, Movement

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• Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.

  Amelia Warner

  Girl, Sexy, Interesting

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• Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

  Ed Stoppard

  Cities, Opinion, Offence

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• I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

  Tyne Daly

  Dream, Struggle, Kids

  "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

  Don Van Vliet

  People, Drug, Aspirin

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• Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

  Tom Rachman

  Remember, Forget, Superiors

  Tom Rachman (2014). “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel”, p.237, Dial Press

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• Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

  Ernest Hemingway

  World, Six, Creation

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tattoo, Anchors, Events

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Brother, Hate, League

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• Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Dream, Style, Marketing

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• Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.

  Ray William Johnson

  Eternity, Immortality, Get Real

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• Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can't admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Men, Artist, Together

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• Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.

  Matthew Slotover

  Artist

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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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• Maturity is highly overrated.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Maturity

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.50, Vintage Canada

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• In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

  Hilari Bell

  Attitude, Character, Way

  Hilari Bell (2009). “Crown of Earth”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.

  Harriet Rubin

  Advice, Needs, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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