Overrated Quotes - Page 6

• Being queen is overrated.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Queens

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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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• 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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• I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.

  Michael Chabon

  Mean, Sobriety, Way

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.53, Open Road Media

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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 mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!

  Marc Jacobs

  Travel, Mean, People

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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'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, Age, Conflict

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• I bring excitement on the sets. I'm an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I'm not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.

  Shahrukh Khan

  People, Actors, Excitement

  "I want to retain what I have, recapture what I've lost". Interview with Komal Nahta, January 13, 2000.

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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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• I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.

  Catherine Wilson

  Goal, Groups, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

  Richard Whately

  Assuming, Underrated, Pretension

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

  Noel Coward

  Vegetables, Green

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Growing

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• Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Sound, Littles, Sometimes

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• I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

  Elia Kazan

  Stars, Thinking, Too Much

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