#compare

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bullets #compared #dodging #dungeons #famine

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#because #boundaries #come #compare #else

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#eye #i #little #out #peers

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#cut #good #minuscule #our #salaries

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#bands #certain #certain level #compare #continued

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ↗

— George Eliot

#each #expect #experience #lying #men

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#compared #embrace #music #only #prayer

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#feel #fortunate #i #i feel #icon

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#compared #dead #grateful #grateful dead #i