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Tag Name "Oversensitive" (9)

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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
Jasper Fforde
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People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.
Mandy Patinkin
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It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.
Nelson Mandela
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...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive) a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
E. Lockhart
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
Joe Torre
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It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism
Nelson Mandela
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Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.
William Maxwell
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I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
Brion James
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh