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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.

  Simon Gray

  Sex, Thinking, Extras

  Simon Gray (2013). “Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car”, p.370, Faber & Faber

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• Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Growing

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• I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.

  Noel Coward

  Vegetables, Green

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• War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

  George F. Kennan

  War, Tools, Foreign Policy

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• Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.

  Thom Yorke

  Brilliant, Radiohead, Solo

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• There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking

  "Meryl Streep's 2004 Emmys Speech Would Be The Perfect Response To Donald Trump's Diss". www.bustle.com. January 20, 2017.

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• The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

  Manu Joseph

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.

  Nina Conti

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Justice, May, Homesick

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• The truth is overrated.

  Paul Westerberg

  Truth, Truth Is

  Song: It's a Wonderful Lie, Album: Suicaine Gratifaction, 1999

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• If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

  Brad Stine

  Nice, Past, Years

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• Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

  Larry Wall

  Symmetry

  Usenet article <6vhq4r%24a6i@kiev.wall.org>, groups.google.com. October 8, 1998.

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• I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Aristocracy, Proud

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• I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

  Chris Rock

  Hacks

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• Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

  Cyril Connolly

  Failure, Bitterness, Undesirable

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• Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

  Todd Phillips

  Jobs, People, Directors

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

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• To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

  Grant Achatz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Espresso

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