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«To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. Do you think that they set out for it to be that way? All actors set out for the same thing: to make both entertaining films and important films.»
Author: Alec Baldwin
(Actor)
| Keywords:
actors, compare, distinguished, enormous, entertaining, films, set out, snipe, Snipes, tremendous, Washington, Wesley
«To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.»
Author: Kenko Yoshida
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Generations
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compare, converse, generations, intimate, lamplight, spread, spread out, unseen
«Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people»
«There is no teaching to compare with example.»
«When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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compare, compares, compete, content, contenting, in some respects, in that respect, respect, simply
«We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, -- for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, -- for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
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broad, chain, chide, chides, chiding, compare, differ, Flesh and Blood, good faith, good will, openness, pathway, pathways, rains, rust, severely, Two Brothers
«Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.»
«To compare is not to prove»
Author: French Proverb
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compare
«When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.»
«There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Beyond Reason, collectors, compare, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, intellects, labors, skylight, skylights
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