Overrated Quotes - Page 5

• Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

  Dick Morris

  Winning, Political, Politics

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• Neymar is massively overrated.

  Neymar

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• Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

  David Brin

  Smart, Successful, Self

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.193, Spectra

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• The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Looks, Calling

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.75, A&C Black

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• Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Views, Virtue

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• Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Uncles, Eye

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• Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

  Richelle Mead

  Smart, Study, Copies

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• In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Opinion, Virtue, Moderation

  Barbara Taylor Bradford (1987). “A Woman of Substance”, Bantam

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• The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pyramids, Design, Tiny

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• Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Adventure, Hands, Stability

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.149, Bantam

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• It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Smart, Men

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Simple, Men

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.288, Delacorte Press

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• Goodbyes are overrated.

  Neil Gaiman

  Goodbye

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

  Brad Pitt

  Loss, Winning, Next

  "Brad Pitt: Marriage is more than 'just a title'". www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Song, Reason

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.155, Penguin

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• Being a martyr is highly overrated.

  Patricia Briggs

  Martyr

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.155, Penguin

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• Civilization is vastly overrated.

  Patricia Briggs

  Civilization

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Alpha & Omega: A Companion Novella to Cry Wolf”, p.56, Penguin

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  Ina Garten

  Tools, Pasta, Makers

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• Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

  Bridgit Mendler

  Geek, What You Love

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• I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Thinking, Clogging Up

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• All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

  Tom DeLonge

  Kids, Thinking, Funny Things

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• Popularity is totally overrated.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Popularity

  "Kathleen Hanna Discusses ‘The Punk Singer’ Documentary And The Evolution Of Feminism". Interview with Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Balance is overrated.

  Thomas Leonard

  Balance

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• I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self Esteem, Issues, Lucky

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• 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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