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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

Quote by Victoria Abril about pain, work

I decided that I was going to do something totally different so that nobody could say that this (new project) wasn't as good as The Guess Who. They may not like it, but I didn't want to be compared.

Quote by Randy Bachman about good, good luck

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Quote by Kathy Acker about students

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about sex, music

For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.

Quote by Eva Herzigova about common sense

What they call jazz here is not the real stuff. Compared to the music I heard in New Orleans, it sounds like tin pans.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about music, real estate

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

Quote by Francis Parkman about nature

No life can be compared to another Life unless both refer to Death! Even if a Life is different from another Life, it exists, as Life, only by referring to Death, because all other Lives it would refer to finally lead to the last referent which is...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about life, death

From the point of view of the opposabilities it is clear that the Only one and the singular in opposability appears with a minimum of two elements which is strict and unique through the fact that there can no longer be another singular...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about philosophy, infinite

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Quote by Rupert Brooke about books, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, contentment