Quotes About Comparison

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition.

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.

I'm a much better comedian than I am a soccer player.

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

Social media can be so damaging.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

Social media makes you think.

Social media has been both damaging and beneficial in terms of how we view our bodies.

Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.

People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.

If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.