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• I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path.

  Mary Harron

  Successful, Thinking, Doe

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Rocks, Sides, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Ocean, Lakes

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• When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

  John Scofield

  Joy, Listening, Loses

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• Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy enough to bloom when nights are still frosty and snow still lingers in the ravines.

  Howard Evans

  Night, Sight, Yellow

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• What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

  Heinz Pagels

  Art, Trying, Giants

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.343, Courier Corporation

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• I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Thinking, Years, Achievement

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• If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Europe, Continents, Ifs

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• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Law, Fatherhood

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• We're not all equal as far as intelligence is concerned. We're not equal as far as size. We're not all equal as far as appearance. We do not all have the same opportunities. We're not born in the same environments, but we're all absolutely equal in having the opportunity to make the most of what we have and not comparing or worrying about what others have.

  John Wooden

  Opportunity, Worry, Size

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• When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

  Lee Iacocca

  Age, Looks, Way

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• I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.

  Gary Bartz

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Country, Dog

  Herman Melville (1974). “Moby Dick; or, The Whale”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that they are comparing it to, which would perhaps provide deeper sustenance than many contemporary novels.

  Marilynne Robinson

  People, Scripture, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.

  Elana Meyers

  Unique, Skills, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Reading, Doors, Listening

  "Mark Gatiss and Tom Riley discuss bringing Robin Hood to life for ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. September 5, 2014.

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• We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like that? How do we work on making sure that the small-business part of this works better?... And if people have [alternate] plans, let's compare them and see. Access, affordability, and quality - that's what this is about. [But] "repeal" is a symbol of something that I don't think is connected to the substance of what's happening. Do you want to take away care from people who have preexisting conditions? [Repeal] takes you backward.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Thinking, Alaska, Issues

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

  Stephen Beal

  Meditation, Sound, Gestures

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. November 19, 2010.

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• You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Jobs, Thinking, Recipes

  "MAD MEN: Vincent Kartheiser Talks About the Final Episodes". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 3, 2015.

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• It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Brain, Legs, Arms

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.29, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Girl, Names, People

  "Here They Are Jayne Mansfield". Book by Raymond Strait, 1992.

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• I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

  Pau Gasol

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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• When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

  Evgeni Malkin

  Honor, Mario

  "Baby Penguins fly / 4 youngsters make Pittsburgh one of the NHL's most exciting teams" by Ross McKeon, www.sfgate.com. November 4, 2006.

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• I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come out of a human mind. To compare it to true science is a joke. There is nothing even slightly scientific about it.

  Ray Comfort

  Thinking, Ideas, Theory Of Evolution

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• Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?

  Leonard Read

  Men, Office, Example

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

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