#compare

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

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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

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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. ↗

— John Grisham

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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. ↗

— William Gurnall

#exceeded #far #less #look #than

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

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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#attitude #compared #continues #could #different

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#been #birth #compare #does #feel

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#god #law #lightning #like #mills

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

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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