Exaggerating Quotes - Page 3

• I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight training. It's made me and given me the life that I have. And it goes way back to the eighth grade getting cut, your friends telling you that you can't do it, and you telling yourself that you can.

  Jake Steinfeld

  Cutting, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Teenager, Self

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the plotting stage, anything can happen. That's why I try to finish that part before I start writing. I may be exaggerating here - I'm sure there are times when I think of something part-way through that changes the story, but the ultimate outcome doesn't change. Or not yet. It could always happen.

  Jessica Abel

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org. July 11, 2006.

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• Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

  Patricia Ireland

  Sex, Issues, Fairness

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• I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when I say, at the vast majority of shows, they loved it. There were encores, there were standing ovations.

  David Cross

  Lying, America, Europe

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Soul, Outcomes

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• I think people are exaggerating the fears of a Donald Trump presidency because they're coming off a campaign where they're very disappointed.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thinking, People, Campaigns

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

  Kate Bush

  Hunting, Baths, Prowling

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Phones, Government

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril. And I am not exaggerating. The modern era of feminism has done such great damage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, Understanding, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Boys, Years, Patches

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• In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

  Ray Still

  Art, Order, Play

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• The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mountain, Ordinary, Vicissitudes

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

  Don Rickles

  Weakness, Situation, Whole

  Source: adambulger.blogspot.com

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• I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Talking, Guy

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• Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Stories

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• Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

  Seth

  Chance, Ability, Assessing

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• The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Rich, Glory, Articles

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Russian Literature”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Fifty, Losing

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• She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Triumph, Admitting

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.38, Vintage

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• A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

  Jean Vanier

  Kindness, Heart, Competition

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Man and Woman, God Made Them”, p.189, Paulist Press

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• No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. “Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cute, Cousin, Fun

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.226, Crown Archetype

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• The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

  Robertson Davies

  Selfish, Trouble, Young

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

  John Cleese

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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

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