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• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  

  Silvan Shalom
  • Side
  • Compare
  • Apartheid

• Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Bird
  • Compare

• We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Jesus
  • Compare
  • Creates

• How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Lives
  • Appreciate
  • Compare

• Young is a phenomenal athlete. You can obviously compare him to Michael Vick.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Young
  • Athlete
  • Compare

• What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.

  

  Cesar Milstein
  • Different
  • Science
  • Simple

• No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

  

  Willis Harman
  • Political
  • Military
  • Economic

• The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Missing

• Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Job
  • Compare
  • Being You

• Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

  

  William Gurnall
  • World
  • Creatures
  • Glorious

• Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Deserve
  • Unhappy
  • Compare

• Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Animal
  • Critics
  • Excuse

• If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Compare

• The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

  

  Reggie Bush
  • Goal
  • Expectations
  • Higher

• We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

  

  Roger Caras
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Bird

• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Grew Up
  • Compare
  • Beatles

• Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Brilliant
  • Compare
  • Complacent

• We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Persons
  • Next
  • Accomplished

• I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Jazz

• Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

  

  Eustache Deschamps
  • Paris
  • Compare

• 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
  • Paint
  • Compare

• I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Trying
  • Feelings
  • Sorry

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