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  • We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

    Hands   Reputation   Ibm  
  • I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

    Thinking   Littles   Way  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • "Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

    Real   People   Entourage  
    "MY LA: Pauly Shore Talks Being Chauffeured By Comedians, Why Michael Bay Hates Him and How He Really Feels About The Valley". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.
  • In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.

    "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
  • I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

    Writing   Tools   Use  
    "David Sedaris: 'If you tell a funny story at the dinner table in front of 10 people, nine will laugh, and one will say: that's not true. I've always hated that person'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.
  • Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

  • Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

  • A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

    Source: www.notquitenigella.com
  • It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

    Mad   Twenties   Littles  
    Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press
  • There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

    George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions
  • Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation
  • Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

    "Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised".
  • Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

    "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
  • Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.

    Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”
  • In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

    Writing   Artist   May  
  • I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

    Careers   People   Drug  
    Source: collider.com
  • Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

    Beautiful   India   Meals  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1571, Manonmani Publishers
  • I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

    Light   Discovery   Two  
  • Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

    Art   Events   Essentials  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社
  • The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

  • Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

    Men   Christianity   Poor  
    Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria
  • Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.

    Dream   Country   Kings  
    "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
  • It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

  • To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

  • satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

    Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.208, Random House
  • All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  • It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

  • Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point is - you are the one person who cares the most about your project, so you have to take the leadership in driving it forward.

    "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.
  • Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.

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