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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. -- Omar Epps
My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. -- Tom Bergeron
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. -- Guy Browning
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. -- Twyla Tharp
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. -- Rosemary Mahoney
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs. -- Marco Rubio
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. -- James Madison
It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune. -- L. Frank Baum
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. -- Thomas Jefferson
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18]. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~ -- Brooke Shields
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat. -- Mark Twain
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic. -- Robert Dallek
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it. -- Aristotle
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. -- Ayn Rand
Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet. -- Maggie Stiefvater
People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world. -- Vince Staples
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing. -- Margaret Atwood
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. -- Paul Harris
What about Beck?" "Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure. -- Jana Oliver
They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities. -- Thomm Quackenbush
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. -- Lady Gaga
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along. -- Walter Kirn
In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all. -- David Horsey
I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant. -- Clive Owen
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism -- Thomas Jefferson

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