Quotes About Comparison

I don't have the similar amount of success like my contemporaries have.

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.

When I went to England the first time, everyone asked the same question - how come you're so big in Europe and nothing in England. And I told them that all the continents, they're coming, one by one.

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.

Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.

I love to have contrast.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Obviously I had great hand-eye coordination. I saw I was really different than other players.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

Who can copy Garbo?

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.

Why on Earth would the United States ever want to be more like Europe? Correct me if I'm wrong, but we left, did we not? Not only did we leave that older, lesser world behind, but we left skid-marks along the way with an entire continent eating our proverbial dust.

There's a direct correlation between media and how we feel about our bodies.

I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.

There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts.

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.