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I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. -- Paul Simon
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture. -- Sherrod Brown
I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004. -- John Fund
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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
Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating. -- Harry S. Truman
In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating. -- Ray Still
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. -- Julien Green
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. -- Benjamin Graham
Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person. -- David Horsey
I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards. -- Maria Semple
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions. -- Arnold Kling
From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm not exaggerating, remotely. -- Kirsten Vangsness
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull. -- Daphne Merkin
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
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. -- David Suzuki
I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory. -- Autre Ne Veut
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness. -- Umberto Eco
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
The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied. -- Eli Broad
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told. -- Jeffrey Toobin
I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography. -- Peter Beard
All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film. -- Harvey Keitel
When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it. -- Imelda May
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
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
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across. -- Damien Chazelle
Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. -- Bob Balaban
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
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating! -- Kate Bush
I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating? -- Karen Hawkins
Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them. -- Seth
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it -- Eric Hoffer
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. -- Criss Jami
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
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
The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised. -- Selima Hill
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
We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing... And we all enjoy it hahaha -- honeya
The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them. -- Saint Francis de Sales

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