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People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. -- Guy Browning
Sounds like you're overcompensating... Besides, I didn't want you to get a creak in your neck from lookin' down at me. -- Dante Alighieri
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. -- Neil Jordan
A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys. -- Tom Hardy
Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going to do with it?" "I don't know. I was hoping their overcompensating sign would say, but it just says 'private property' and shouts lots of threats in capital letters, all of which I plan to completely ignore later. -- Darynda Jones
Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level. -- Thomas Bangalter
Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault. -- Babatunde Adebimpe

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