Overrated Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Shops

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• Professional competitions are overrated.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Competition

  Online Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Exercise is overrated.

  Tim Ferriss

  Exercise

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• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Done, Too Much

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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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• 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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• 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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• Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

  Nick Cave

  Luxury, Feelings, Way

  "Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Girl, Wall, Teenage

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• Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Consistency, Mind, Virtue

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• I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought more about what they're doing. When someone gets upset with their computer, I tend to side with the computer. I think art is overrated, and bridges are underrated. In fact, I don't understand why bridges aren't art. It seems to me they're penalized for having a use. If I make a bridge that ends in midair, that's a sculpture. But put it between two landmasses and let it ferry two hundred thousand cars per day and it's infrastructure. That makes no sense.

  Max Barry

  Art, Thinking, Bridges

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• Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

  Joel Stein

  Clouds, Luxury Hotels, Blue

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• Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

  David Low

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

  Brad Pitt

  Happiness, Thinking, Misery

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• We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Following Instructions, Needs

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• Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."
  I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?"
  "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Thinking, Perfect, Way

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Rocks, Littles, Tiny

  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Girl, Mean, Kissing

  Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.146, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Law, Quality

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• I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

  John Carmack

  Inspirational, Special, Intellect

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