Overrated Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• Having everything your way is highly overrated.

  Joyce Meyer

  Way

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

  Ray William Johnson

  Eternity, Immortality, Get Real

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Following Instructions, Relatable, Instruction

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

  Al Pacino

  Love Is, Chocolate, Different

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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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• 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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