Overrated Quotes - Page 8

• I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

  Robbie Williams

  Thinking, Drink, Contemplating

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• It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Rain, Kissing, Oxygen

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• Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

  Ernest Gellner

  Categories, Capitalism, Seems

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.94, Cornell University Press

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• Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

  Bill Veeck

  Funny, Suffering, Teach

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• Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

  Nora Ephron

  Guy, Needs, Trouble

  "Fictional character: Becky". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

  Beth Gibbons

  Art, Insecurity, Suffering

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• Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

  Peter Schiff

  Wall, Mutual Fund, Investment

  Peter D. Schiff (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Justify

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Common Sense, Wish

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• I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Culture, Succeed

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Adventure, Insecure

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• My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!

  Mervyn Peake

  Time, Hands, Circles

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Way, Needs

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• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

  Walter Sickert

  Passion, Thinking, Misunderstood

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

  Robyn Davidson

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

  Nick Cave

  Light, Ideas, People

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• The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Years, Directors

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• I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Stuff, Kind

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.116, Penguin

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• Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

  Joni Rodgers

  Cancer, Fire, Profound

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• Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Humans, Human Activity

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• All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Beautiful, Horse, Insane

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• Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

  Peter Høeg

  Falling In Love, Shame, Awareness

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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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• No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.” “Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. “This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.

  Shannon Hale

  Spring, Style, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.295, A&C Black

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