Quotes About Comparison

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.

Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.

Beverley Leslie was closeted. I'm not closeted. He was a little homophobic. He's a social climber. I'm nothing like that. He had a mean streak. I don't think I'm mean at all.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!

I am not that fast and skilful. I am not Raheem Sterling, am I? So I know I have to use my strength and power in the box.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

I really try to play to my strengths, man. I'm never going to be Guthrie Govan: he's a brilliant player.

If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

Well I guess I always look at other people who have maybe more traditional jobs and I think gosh their weeks are so much more stressful and busy than mine.

I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

'Goon' is very much an action - it's got a lot of heart, it's got a lot of comedy, it's got a lot of similarities to what I think was successful in 'Deadpool,' and so I think it's not a stretch to compare those two things and say the world is a little more ready than they used to be for this kind of material.

I was probably around 14 or 15 when I became really conscious of those girls who were going on to the Royal Ballet school, and that I was not Royal Ballet school material, not by a long stretch.

I used to always say, 'Cheetahs don't stretch.' And I look at myself as a cheetah.

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.