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• With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Writing, Lennon

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• There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Live Music

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• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.77, 谷月社

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• It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

  Dave Navarro

  Two, Would Be, Band

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

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• Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

  Kelly Osbourne

  People, Busy, Unforgiving

  "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" by Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

  PSY

  Crazy, Night, Korea

  "In South Korea, K-Pop Gets New King". Interview with Guy Raz, wwno.org. September 18, 2012.

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• Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

  Jimmy Page

  America, Zeppelins, Mouths

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

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• There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Christian, World, Fellowship

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Holiday, Suspense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

  Francoise Sagan

  Writing, Arbitrary, Jazz

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

  Boris Spassky

  Theatre, Cinema, Actors

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• I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Country, Saudi Arabia, Saudis

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

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Atheist

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Life, People, Inspire

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, I Can

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• What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Poverty, Language

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• Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.16, Knopf

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• Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

  David Levithan

  Caring, People, Bravery

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• Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Your Children, Wanted

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.37, David C Cook

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• I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.81, Grove Press

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• I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Past, Leaving

  Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

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• Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Religious, Jesus, Real

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Comfort for Christians”, p.71, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Dream, Real, Forever

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• About time," Christian said. "Lissa and Adrian get the market share on worrying about you, but they're not the only ones. And someone needs to put Adrian in his place, you know. I can't do it all the time." "Thanks. It kills me to say this, but I missed you too. No one's sarcasm compares to yours in Russia.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Sarcasm, Russia

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