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Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated. — Brian Spellman

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. — Nicolas Chamfort

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. — Thomas Carlyle

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. — Marilyn Monroe

A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance. — P.G. Wodehouse

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. — Jerry Saltz

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. — Chris Hardwick

Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling. — Jose Saramago

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be. — Amy Hempel

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated. — Rose Macaulay

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman

Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy. — Craig Kilborn

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring. — Michel Eugene Chevreul

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that. — Drake

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated. — Ahmed Chalabi

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality. — Courtney Love

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all. — Manolo Blahnik

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. — Christopher Lasch

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self. — Deepak Chopra

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result. — Anthony Daniels

But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated. — Gustave Flaubert

The news of my death is greatly exaggerated. — W.C. Fields

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. — Grace Darling

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. — Kofi Annan

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. — R.H. Blyth

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. — Warwick Davis

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies. — J.C. Ryle

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms. — Ian McKellen

I suspect that many of the horror stories about jail are greatly exaggerated, but still, I wouldn't want to pass out in one. — Jules Cassard

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. — Susan Sontag

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know. — Albert Camus

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. — Robert Breault

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly
exaggerated. — Homer

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way. — David Icke

There are two things we must get rid of early in life: a feeling of personal superiority and an exaggerated reverence for the sexual act. — Ayn Rand

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ... — Lemony Snicket

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous. — Amanda Schull

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes — Ayn Rand

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright

Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated," Sheppard said. He'd always wanted to use that line. — Jo Graham

Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom. — C. G. Jung

Exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange. — Stephen Dunn

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? — Arthur Conan Doyle

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. — H.L. Mencken

Is that all we are? he thinks. Unmistakable clothing, a hairstyle, a few exaggerated features, a gesture? - — Margaret Atwood

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. — James Shikwati

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. — Carl Jung

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. — Julian Barnes

Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from. — Mark Lawrence

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' — Nick Nolte

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality. — Mark Fitzpatrick

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. — Kelly Miller

It was the voice of someone emerging from anesthesia, speaking with the exaggerated precision of a wondering mind striving for clarity. — Magda Szabo

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated. — John Kenneth Galbraith

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality. — Katy Perry

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. — Alan Johnson

But in the same way a man's nose and ears become exaggerated as he ages, so do the psychological issues that define him. We — Noah Hawley

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. — E.W. Howe

Reports of my hairline receding are greatly exaggerated. True - but greatly exagerrated. . — Steven Wellington

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist. — Don Watson

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. — Fred Wilson

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. — Herman Melville

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts. — Scott Ritter

You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going. — Dorian Corey

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. — Alfred Adler

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated. — Marty Rubin

And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. — Colum McCann

Perhaps it was, what you don't realize, my dear (not having killed anyone) our judgement is distorted afterward and everything seems exaggerated. — Agatha Christie

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. — Bill Bradley

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories. — Richard Finney

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance. — Ashleigh Brilliant

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. — Will Rogers

People always have exaggerated ideas about unfamiliar things'. - Meursault — Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus

The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies. — Mark Simpson

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated. — Jonathan Carroll

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick. — Tamora Pierce

The rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated. — Mark Twain

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. — Valentino Garavani

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau

The woman gave an exaggerated sigh. — Claudia Hall Christian

I've never met a person who exaggerated God's love. Never. It's impossible. — Judah Smith

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. — Ed Wynn

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. — Conrad Black

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated. — Leland Stanford

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense. — Mark Twain

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. — Paul McCartney

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. — D.H. Lawrence

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. — Paul Gauguin