A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
One thing I did was to create a Love Yourself List. I wrote down everything I like about myself, and put it on my bathroom mirror. Then I read it until I believed it. Any time I compared myself to others, and felt negative about myself, I’d go back to that list.
I dread the promotion part of my job. It’s agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.
I don’t want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don’t want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.
There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I’m lucky I’m not plucking chickens.
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of ‘maternal imperative’ is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.
If you can’t relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you’re too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.
Sometimes in a Premier League game the fans are a bit quiet but in Nigeria you just hear trumpets, everything. The atmosphere is so different compared to England.
I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you’re top five in the country; you’re young and everyone says you can be a pro. That’s when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.
Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
If you sign someone with the speed but whose time is over, they will set up the car differently and badly. You are 80 percent of the time going through corners, and you set up the car differently compared to someone who comes and wants to go flat out.
I’m the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard’s African novels.
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Many star kids constantly get compared to their fathers and are unable to match their parent’s mettle. But I am proud to say that my son has taken the legacy forward.
Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.
I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control – it’s a lot more relaxed and loose.
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
The first hit record is easy compared to the second one. You’ve got to have two for momentum. If you have three, you’re pretty much made. But one isn’t enough.
At the end of Season Four of ‘Mr. Show,’ instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into ‘And Now For Something Completely Different,’ and everyone kind of compared ‘Mr. Show’ to Monty Python.
I think that’s the difference in my game compared to some other guys. I just believe in playing in the flow of the game, playing the right way with ball movement.
Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk for the elderly compared to the rest of the population.
The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.
My family would try and trick us and I would come to a party and she would be there. When I tell you the ‘Love & Hip Hop’ scene is nothing compared to what was happening with me and mom… throwing things at each other, the cursing, the words.
Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by ‘dysmorphic OCD thoughts,’ being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.
I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she’s kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It’s quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you’re just another female artist.
How rich our German life is compared to France or England: what an abundance of social types and customs with completely different origins… Germany is a world, whereas England and France, with their stereotypically divided three social classes, are but enlarged villages… what a stage for a Balzac.
Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson’s.
Living in Pakistan, you didn’t have a sense of how huge and varied America was geographically. I had visited once. I thought of it as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody’s rich, and there’s stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it’s not untrue. Compared to Pakistan, the streets are paved with gold.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
I don’t even know what TV star means. I know there’s a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.
In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.
Compared to other liberal cities like San Francisco and Amsterdam, New Yorkers are always trying to do something, make art or love or money or whatever, and they have this phobia about standing still.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Today’s Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
Salman bhai is amazing, and he is one of the greats of our cinema, and I don’t think I should be compared to Salman Khan.
Some say a model’s tenure is relatively short compared with other careers. But I disagree. Models of all age groups are needed, so I think modeling can be a lifelong career.
The ‘My Mother the Car’ script read like Neil Simon compared to the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ script.
I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for ‘3rd Rock on the Sun,’ I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.
I’ve been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I’ve learned to deal with.
The pressure of chasing 230 is naturally always less compared to chasing 300.
Covering the NBA is about covering people. I think that’s why it’s sometimes compared to a reality show – because you actually get the chance to know the characters, not just the teams.
I usually take up short films when I am not tied up with feature films. Short films are easier to work on… because it doesn’t take much of your time. The number of shoot days are lesser as compared to feature films.
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.
Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.
You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.
The amount of surgeries I’ve had are absolutely minimal compared to the reconstructive surgeries I’ve had. Probably 300.
I’ve been compared to so many people – Streisand, Celine – it doesn’t bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?
I take it as a compliment to be compared with a legend like Kishore Kumar.
During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation’s challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
I am in awe of Ken Jennings’s accomplishments, as all ‘Jeopardy!’ fans are. Simply being compared to him is an honor.
