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• People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

  

  Mike Mills
  • People
  • Giving
  • Film

• One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Study
  • Prison

• I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

  

  Todd English
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Action

• Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Melancholy
  • Trance

• We believe that such a significant increase in longevity is due to the protective effect against cancer produced by caloric restriction - incidences fall by 40 percent if we compare them with the mice that produce more telomerase and have a normal diet - and, added to the presence of longer telomeres, this makes the mice live longer and better.

  

  María Blasco Marhuenda
  • Believe
  • Percent
  • Significant

• I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Different
  • Drama

• Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Growth

• I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Compare
  • Awe
  • Supremes

• The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Person
  • Ourselves
  • Compare

• I’m not tryna be dark but I just got to the part where you stare at the stars and compare what you are to everything all around, wonder what it’d be like if it all came crashing down.

  

  Jesse Rutherford
  • Stars
  • Compare
  • Crashing

• Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • Compare
  • Agony

• The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Power
  • Kind

• I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Baseball
  • Compare
  • Ems

• In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Ways
  • Compare
  • The Pretenders

• As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on tape can still be automatically scanned for durability and it certainly meets the cost-effectiveness requirements.

  

  George Arthur Crump
  • Term
  • Effectiveness
  • Requirements

• As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Women
  • School
  • Girl

• The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Battle

• 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
  • Today
  • Brain
  • Enough

• It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Job
  • Movies
  • Compare

• When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Hours

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

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Guitar
  • Compare
  • Expensive

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

  

  Jules Shear
  • People
  • Like
  • Compare

• When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Degrees
  • Individualism
  • Blank

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