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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. -- Bob Edwards
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. -- Charles de Secondat
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. -- Nicolas Chamfort
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. -- Eric Hoffer
Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it. -- David Sedaris
An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance. -- Johan Lindeberg
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. -- Honore de Balzac
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. -- Daniel Kahneman
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. -- Arthur Phillips
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. -- Sarah Bernhardt
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. -- Matthew Arnold
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? -- Henry David Thoreau
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic. -- Nick Clooney
I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. -- Robert Irvine
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago. -- George H. W. Bush
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it. -- Martin Parr
They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities. -- Don Rickles
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions. -- Jodelle Ferland
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection. -- Mark Carwardine
I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women. -- Naomi Wolf
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. -- Floyd Abrams
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond. -- Charles Dickens
The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips. -- Claire Danes
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much. -- Christian Louboutin
If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!' -- Evander Holyfield
I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact. -- Roald Dahl
To exaggerate is to weaken. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
You exaggerate your own reactions. -- Dylan Moran
We weaken what we exaggerate. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Find what you're best at and exaggerate it. -- Steve Vai
Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation. -- Teresa of Avila
There is no one who does not exaggerate! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't exaggerate - I just remember big. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate. -- Charlie Nicholas
Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean. -- C. S. Lewis
He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein -- Steig Larsson
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. -- Mark Twain
Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate? -- Francis Chan
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel. -- Mike Caro
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. -- Charlotte Bronte
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. -- Nahum Goldmann
I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do. -- Rooney Mara
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. -- Franz Grillparzer
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it. -- Matthew Lawrence
Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security. -- Bill Delahunt
Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. -- Joseph Joubert
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse. -- David Leavitt
It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security. -- Bill Delahunt
I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify. -- Tim Allen
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them. -- Stephen Leacock
When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it. -- Matthew Lawrence
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. -- Lydia M. Child
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. -- George Bernard Shaw
Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third -- Atiku Abubakar
I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me. -- Joe Biden
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. -- Robert D. Putnam
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. -- Mahatma Gandhi
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief. -- Criss Jami
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. -- Honore de Balzac
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control. -- David L. Katz
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously. -- Nicolas Bentley
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility -- George Santayana
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate. -- Max Lucado
It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale. -- Claire Danes
I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. -- Aldous Huxley
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them -- George Bernard Shaw
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick. -- Richard Thaler
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But thereâ??s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. -- David Biespiel
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate. -- Hugh Mackay
You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. -- Eric Hoffer
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. -- G. H. Hardy
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium. -- Aaron Hill
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. -- Anthony Trollope
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it. -- Bill Johnson
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence. -- Daniel Kahneman
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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home. -- Henry David Thoreau
What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny. -- Wayne Knight
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them. -- Tim Wise
So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry? -- Henry David Thoreau
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss. -- Richard Davidson
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? -- Henry David Thoreau
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord. -- Charles Spurgeon
People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high. -- Johnny Depp
I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is. -- Henry David Thoreau
I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side. -- Simon Rex
You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow." -- John C. Maxwell
My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane. -- Duane Hanson
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body. -- Teresa of Avila
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them. -- Elizabeth Bowen
You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures. -- Caroll Spinney
Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you. -- Michael Manley
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists. -- Michael Crichton
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate. -- Will Rogers
I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes. -- Helen Fielding
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you. -- Radha Mitchell
I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there alive. Though I did tend to exaggerate. -- Darynda Jones
Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries. -- Jacob Zuma
If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it. -- Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah
It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit. -- Rabih Alameddine
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us! -- Henry David Thoreau
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations. -- Jorge Luis Borges

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