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“If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.”

Believe Art Book Psychological Truthful Offense Hyperbole

Author:Wendy Sherman

“On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is.”

Dream Ridiculous Being True Outlandish Hyperbole

Author:Paul Madonna

“What has happened over the years is that scientists have now developed AIDS therapeutic capabilities, as well as prevention, and we've linked prevention and treatment in a way that if you fast-forward 30 years form '88 to now, we can say without hyperbole that we have the tools, if implemented the way they could be implemented, to theoretically, essentially end the epidemic as we know it now.”

Scientist Aids Capability Hyperbole

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“I am very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going overboard in producing an art piece and I like the way it brings the work away from a meditative space of reflection to a more direct, impactful tool that can compete with the mainstream. I like all these power plays, which have a lot to do with contextualization. In turn, I'm interested in creating crossovers between creative disciplines and in a way in subverting the expected role of the artist in society.”

Art Artist Creative Discipline Reflection Direct Overboard Hyperbole

Author:Larissa Sansour

“I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.”

Men Art Feelings Home Desire Difficult Honest Rhetoric Persuasion Hyperbole

Author:George Carlin

“I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Bedtime Hyperbole

Author:John Legend

“Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.”

Oxygen Johnson Hyperbole

Author:Bill Moyers

“The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.”

People Thinking Way Mind Whole Chef Open Mind Hyperbole

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”

“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!”

Should Might Earth Dies Stars Christ Greater Wonderful Creatures Glory Angel Noble Golden Probability Revenue Vessel Glory Of God Hyperbole Wonderful Love

Author:Thomas Watson

“Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.”

World Real Attention Focus Right Now Threat Environmental Awful Instant Global Warming Menace Exclusion Hypothetical Doomsday Hyperbole

Book:A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism

Source: A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism

“Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.”

May Persons Facts Courses Sound Existence Adults Importance Sentences Abstract Nonsense Day To Day Trenches Platitudes Life Or Death Hyperbole

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.”

Speech Metaphor Southern Quirks Hyperbole Vividness

Author:Frances Mayes

“With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.”

Kids Levels Teach Gone Entertainment Hyperbole

Author:Paul Vixie

“From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”

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Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.”

Hyperbole

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.”

Society Atrophy Hyperbole

Author:George Will

“I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.”

Littles I Can Biographers Hyperbole

Author:Ron Chernow

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