In the ’70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don’t get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I’m singing about things I’m connected to is such a blessing. It’s the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, ‘I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,’ and then getting to go to the moon.
My goal is for a complete collection of ‘Squirrel Girl’ comics to be equivalent to a C.S. bachelor degree. Now there’s a comic that increases in value!
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president.
Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: ‘Hey! Let’s set up the slide projector!’
What I am looking for… is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term ‘mute music’.
To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
