Quotes About Comparison

I go into the local chemist, and I can hear people saying, 'Oh my Gaaahd - it's Lisa Kudrow!' And there's a famous Amanda Foreman, an actress two years older than me, who appears in 'Private Practice'.

In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

I know Los Angeles has it better than Chicago when it comes to produce year round!

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

I'm no Robert Christgau or Chuck Klosterman, but I would say that Landlady is like if Harry Nilsson was produced by Brian Eno. Or, if David Byrne fronted Wilco. Those are my two hoity-toity musical epigrams.

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven.

That's not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.