Quotes About Comparison

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

I look at guys like - guys like Floyd Mayweather making $42 million dollars for a pay-per-view - what am I doing differently from what this guy's doing?

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

Celador always ask me to do their shows, and I turned down 'Millionaire.' I couldn't have done it as well as Chris Tarrant, or at least I couldn't have done it any better.

I make $7 million per year. I'm not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We're still millionaires.

Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing.

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.

I have been chief minister twice. In 1997 I was in office for six months, and during that period I did a lot of work, much more than what anybody can do in six years.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would've been in Minnesota.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.

As long as you continue to compare, you suffer from the fear of coming up short; and, even worse, you keep yourself trapped in a constant, painful delusion of isolation and alienation.

I do not think there is that much difference between Christians and Buddhists. Most of the boundaries we have created between our two traditions are artificial. Truth has no boundaries. Our differences may be mostly differences in emphasis.

A professor of creative studies at the University of Georgia, Bonnie Cramond, compared the traits of creative people with the warning signs of ADHD and found that, except for the terms used (positive for creative people, negative for people diagnosed as ADHD), they were practically identical.

I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol

America's poor are better off than much of the European middle class today, and better off than the American middle class of the 1950s.

Reagan has become the Right's Obama: a man whose every action is to be treated as ipso facto brilliant, perhaps even divinely inspired.