Quotes About Comparison

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to like and how they're supposed to act.

Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

There's nobody more dominant in a female fighting athlete than Ronda Rousey. I'm not going to compare her to men, although quite frankly, I'm sure she'd do very well against at least half the division that she's in, which is the bantamweight.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

I don't watch my Rio races back. I'll look at my London 2012 races a lot. But not Rio.

I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.

In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.

You don't see guys being compared with other guys, you base people on your roots in racing. You would think I'd get more compared with people who do dirt racing.

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

China has gotten high-speed rail right, where the United States has not.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

One guy came to a show and was like, 'You're going to be huge. I can see it in my mind's eye. We could make you the next Pixie Lott.' I did an internal scream and ran away.

A lot of players have had it worse than me. Look at a guy like Andy Roddick, incredible Hall of Fame player, but he ran up against Roger so many times in big finals.

It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.

All my doppelgangers are random girls.

I beat Randy Orton, one of the all-time greats, you know. Why can't I beat a Brock Lesnar?

It's funny; people in Europe seem more interested in decay in America than Americans.

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.