Quotes About Comparison

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.

Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can't make very good brie or baguettes - and the French can't make pork pies.

American food is not what I'm used to - everything is like three portions.

I don't think old posh is as intimidating as new posh, is it?

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against which they define themselves.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

I'm very proud of my dad. To me, there are comparisons, but there aren't comparisons. We kind of play two different positions. He's a Hall of Famer, I'm not a Hall of Famer.

Maradona and Messi played in different times and in different positions. Messi is much more a striker, Diego was all over the entire pitch. They are two extraordinary players.

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

The world is more competitive and social media drives this. It's woman against woman when it comes to appearance, possessions and friendship circles.

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don't have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo.

I came across an older picture of me that someone had posted on Facebook, and I totally remember squirming and feeling very fat while I was shooting it.

I see all these posts saying, 'I met Lewis Capaldi,' and in the picture, I look like a melting hippo.

Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.