Quotes About Comparison

As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y'know? I don't really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else's.

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

On 'True Blood,' the character's name is Sookie Stackhouse, and my name is Suki Waterhouse. So, I get people saying, 'Oh, I thought we were meeting the girl from True Blood.'

'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.

'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot it, plus it has an hour of content. 'The Good Wife' is network. They're shooting on HD. It moves quicker and they only have forty minutes of content instead of a full hour. Not to mention the difference of shooting, you know, rated-R stuff!

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.

I've heard everyone do 'Bring Him Home' from 'Les Miserables.' When Colm Wilkinson did it, I truly never thought I would hear anyone as good, never mind better.

I don't think Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan.

We're in Brazil here: Great Brazil just like the Great America of our dear Trump.

Power is not nearly enough for Trump. Power he already possessed, starting with the money his father gave him, which grew into the money he never paid in taxes because he is 'smart.' No: Power and ambition pale in comparison to Trumpbeth's rapacious grab for applause.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

I don't want to suggest that Trump is emulating Putin. Trump is his own creation.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

Hillary Clinton's not very bright. Everybody says she's so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump. She doesn't really have a grasp. She doesn't have a grasp on what's important and what's not.

Trump lies a whole lot more than Joe Biden or any other Democratic politician.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved in the context of retro-totalitarianism.

When Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan are mentioned in the same breath here in Germany, as they are all too often, this is a false equivalence that cannot be tolerated.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen are mirrors of each other. Both enjoy enormous support among evangelicals, yet they lack a command of biblical scripture. Both are among the 1 percent.

If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.