#equivalent

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

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I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cheek #company #david #doing #done

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible. ↗

— David Oyelowo

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For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#buildings #equivalent #guess #i #jumps

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

#big #big mac #equivalent #fries #i

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#equivalent #head #instead #own #reading

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#chances #could #dad #equivalent #ever

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. ↗

— Emmet Fox

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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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