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Comparison Quotes
"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
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"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."
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"How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons."
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"You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
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"Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then."
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"The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself."
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"The moon cannot outshine the sun."
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"It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England."
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"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."
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"Comparison is a disease, one of the greatest diseases."
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"Lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!"
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". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
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"I never understood what Jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection."
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"Drop comparison and you are free. Don't compare, don't compete, just be yourself."
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"Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth."
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"Comparison is a poison that slowly kills your soul."
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"The lasting physical and mental health effects of long term very high altitude exposure appear to be remarkably similar to daily heavy smoking."
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"Comparisons are like rigid fingers-eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it."
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"Human resource is limited to the duration of his/her lifespan while time is unlimited."
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"The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive."
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"Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage."
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"The Scarehouse is like Turkey Soap. The Girl House is better as a film!"
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"Just because someone throws their success in your face doesn't mean you have to let it get in your eyes."
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"Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school."
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"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
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"The moment you compare yourself with another, you become inferior or superior."
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"Milk for infant as liquor for adult."
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"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."
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"Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on."
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"He who hunts deer must not boast to he who hunts buffalo."
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"Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions."
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"A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination."
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