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• I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

  Amanda Stott

  Song, Etc, Tripping

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• I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, People, Black

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mother, Water, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman's - a four-on then four-off type of deal.

  Aaron Watson

  Schedules, Four, Fireman

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• If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

  Jules Shear

  People, Asking, Knows

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• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  Harriet Walter

  Mean, Want, Spheres

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• To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Thinking, Limits

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• The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

  Merle Haggard

  Guitar, Expensive

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• When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'

  Marin Ireland

  Girlfriend, People, Trying

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• One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

  George Lakoff

  Narrative, Tvs, Fit

  George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.23, Penguin

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• It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Men, Class, Champion

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• Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Jesus, Media

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• I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

  Sergio Aguero

  Football, Team, Player

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• I liked the Beatles but I wasn't mad on the Stones. I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry and some of the old blues people, and they never seemed to change. If people compare me to Jagger and the Stones I would be the one to be put down ... I've been far more progressive than any of them.

  Cliff Richard

  Rip, People, Mad

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

  Glenn Danzig

  Song, Artist, Ideas

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• If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Rubbish, Capability, Ifs

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• It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Interesting, President

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• 'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare.

  Joyce Giraud

  Girl, Thinking, Different

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• I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

  Dolly Parton

  Barns, Looks, Littles

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• We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Jesus, Three, Veils

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• Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

  Rebecca Eaton

  Ideas, Stories, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Track, Analysis, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

  Yann Martel

  Men, Sea, People

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• I only know what it's like to be an author with social media. I can't compare. I do think we lose the mystery of the author. Today, I get tons of e-mails and Facebook messages from readers, and my goal with Twitter and Facebook is, if someone reaches out to me, I'm going to respond to them. I don't want to be an elitist author who is untouchable. I'm just a regular person, too. I will always respond to everybody.

  Matt de la Pena

  Thinking, Media, Goal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for example, of being in a city that you don't know. Many times - and I don't know if I can totally defend this argument - I've found that the way one experiences the world, and daily life, we are constantly dealing with these perceptions. And it seems like it works, this superficial perception of determinacy, but it's completely ridiculous.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Reality, Cities, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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