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• The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but include Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, insist on comparing him to the incomparable leader of the British forces in country in part of - during World War II.

  Mark Shields

  Country, War, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

  Gregory Rabassa

  Two, Would Be, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Memories, Writing, Home

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Mom, Hurt, Sick

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's nothing that compares to watching that final of Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM17 to 20 minute sequence in one sitting. It fills you with a giddy energy watching that. Then, being gifted with the silence that follows...I've never had a theatrical experience like that before, I'm sure.

  Will Oldham

  Silence, Energy, Finals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Bible does not say anything about communism, OK? The Bible has a whole lot to say about sex. It has a whole lot to say about homosexuality. And so you can't compare the two and say these are - these are the same. That's just ludicrous. It's just - it's not the same.

  Franklin Graham

  Sex, Two, Say Anything

  "Inside The Nationwide Tour To Support 'Godly Leaders'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And there are a couple of things that she really understands, as she contemplates her grandmother's life and makes the funeral arrangements. One, she's really talented, an organizational woman. She knows how to do things. She begins to compare her life to her grandmother's life. And it's very clear to her that being a devoted wife and a devoted mother is not enough.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Couple, Wife

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've been lucky to have played a lot of women, over the years, especially in the sci-fi genre. All of them are special to me, in different ways, and I hate comparing them because it's like comparing people. They're different.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Hate, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• "Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.

  Tom Cole

  Team, Amazon, Three

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Reading, Play, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you're not going to give her the same dress you'd give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Color, Clothes, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Psychology, Disrespect, Mind

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.

  Erica Schroeder

  Jealous, People, Trying

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

  Devendra Banhart

  Writing, Eye, Feet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.

  Johnny Marr

  Dad, Years, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.

  Laura Mullen

  Taken, Writing, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Talk to Arto Lindsay and I'm sure he's tired of people asking him about DNA; he's probably really into what he's doing now, which is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that.

  Bradford Cox

  Tired, Dna, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Important, Acting, Prominent

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. May 12, 2015.

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• I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

  Jonah Hill

  Sound, Arrogant, Print

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Book, Mean, Paper

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Stars, Ego, Directors

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

  Jon Acuff

  Inspirational, Believe, Middle

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2016

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• When you compare yourself to others, you miss the miracle of who you are.

  Mastin Kipp

  Positivity, Miracle, Missing

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• It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Baby, Sex

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Simple, Example, Transition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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