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We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen. -- Freddie Mercury
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. -- Ronald Reagan
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. -- James A. Garfield
You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal. -- Suzanne Somers
While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon. -- Gregory Maguire
In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling. -- Kevin Nash
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. -- Martial
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. -- Richard Schmid
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. -- Jentezen Franklin
No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard. -- Joaquin Sorolla
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows. -- Jimmy Breslin
For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side. -- Dorothy Nevill
A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner. -- Jay Leno
Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior. -- Henry Cloud
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard! -- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value. -- Matthew Fontaine Maury
In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own. -- Herman Melville
You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out! -- T. D. Jakes
There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -- Frederick Douglass
If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape. -- Vilfredo Pareto
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation. -- Max Planck
I typically go overboard when I research new projects. -- Will Wright
Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard. -- Harsha Bhogle
A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. -- Dawn Powell
If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard. -- Shannen Doherty
It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard. -- Alexandra Roach
I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard. -- George Foreman
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. -- Isabel Allende
My top styling tips for brides are, first and foremost, to be careful not to go overboard with makeup. The goal is to look like yourself, just a bit enhanced! -- Reem Acra
The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way. -- Thomas John Barnardo
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. -- Emanuel Celler
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much. -- Warwick Davis
It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets. -- A. R. Rahman
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Because of Paula, I don't cling to anything anymore. Now I like to give much more than to receive. -- Isabel Allende
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough. -- Dana Hill
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. -- Carlos Santana
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. -- Abraham Lincoln
Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard. -- Kelsea Ballerini
A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface. -- Steve Fossett
If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go. -- Mike deGruy
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Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard. -- Andy Borowitz
Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard. -- Brandon Mull
I am girl overboard.But you do make drowning fun. -- Casey Renee Kiser
I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. -- Yann Martel
Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard. -- Bill Goldberg
Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. -- Mark Twain
Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things. -- Freja Beha Erichsen
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle -- Saul Williams
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. -- Grace Hopper
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. -- Karl Barth
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. -- Cary Cooper
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. -- Hafez
Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history. -- Peter Eisenman
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. -- Sarah Dessen
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard. -- Germaine Greer
When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard." -- Russell M. Nelson
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away. -- William Zinsser
I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year. -- Kevin Drum
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I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it. -- Charles Spurgeon
The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink. -- Dorianne Laux
Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it. -- Max Allan Collins
I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves. -- Ice Cube
How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important. -- Pat McBride
People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth. -- Francis Chan
The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star. -- Mike Mullane
Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave. -- Lord Byron
You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep. -- W. H. Auden
There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so. -- Mary Daly

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