Quotes About Comparison

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.

Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

Focus on making you the best you you can be as an actor and follow your own path. You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.

I think we are becoming more obsessed about getting a certain amount of likes on our Twitter and Instagram accounts rather than actually living a proper, real, honest and organic life.

I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

I used to be really envious of those kids who could do their homework and bring it in on time and were organised.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

Even before the movie was made, people already thought I was the original Lurch.

A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

Originally, I think basketball is closer to hockey than baseball.