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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

  Betty Buckley

  Heart, Stories, May

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• I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

  Lady Gaga

  People, Term

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• There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.

  Gwen Stefani

  Play, Together, Trying

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Passion, Thinking, Guitar

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Joy, Great Friend

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• People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.

  Ice T

  Thinking, People, Might

  "Interview: Ice-T likes lemonade, loves Coco". Interview With Luis Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.

  Frances Trollope

  Mother, Women, America

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.225

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• To love is to stop comparing.

  Merrit Malloy

  Love, Love Is

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• Sith Nature thus gave her the praise,
  To be the chiefest work she wrought,
  In faith, methink, some better ways
  On your behalf might well be sought,
  Than to compare, as ye have done,
  To match the candle with the sun.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Beauty, Done, Sith

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Feelings, Labels, Demand

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• Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.

  Kate Beckinsale

  People, Looks, Magazines

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• People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

  Megan Fox

  Opposites, People, Serious

  "Biography/ Personal QuotesThe Self-Manufacture of Megan Fox". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2009.

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• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  Nancy Allen

  Genius, Fabulous, Three

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• My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

  Patti LuPone

  Mind, Band, My Favorite

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• Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
  Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
  Man, but for that no action could attend,
  And, but for this, were active to no end:
  Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
  Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
  Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.

  Toby Jones

  Thinking, Interesting, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

  Jonah Hill

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  "Jonah Hill: ‘Being Shot In Slow Motion Doing Cocaine By Martin Scorsese’ Was Acting Dream" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.

  Matthew Modine

  Christian, Character, Fighting

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• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  Nat Wolff

  Dad, Live In The Moment, Acting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

  Kanye West

  Art, Past, Thinking

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Age, Way, Pressure

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• The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.

  Tony Bennett

  Fun, Mistake, Team

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• Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

  Bryan Callen

  Letters, Pigeons, Messages

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• Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.

  Dave McPherson

  Sports, Player, Accomplishment

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