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I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
Michael Phelps

Mind, Heart, Decision

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
Boris Spassky

Work, Theatre, Chess

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.
Dave Navarro

Two, Impossible, Lovers

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
Adam Sandler

Life, Great, Learning

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
Adam Sandler

Women, God, Men

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
Lewis Thomas

Technology, End, Single

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
Chris Brown

Respect, Hate, Him

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Time, Writing

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
Wayne Rooney

Life, Dad, Football

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
Orlando Bloom

Time, Experience, Movies

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
Tim Roth

Try, Kubrick, Polanski

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
Tim Roth

Great, Care, Why

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Eddie Vedder

After, Playing, Forever

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
Sloane Crosley

Funny, Humor, Truth

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.
Emmitt Smith

God, Yourself, Find

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
Eric Davis

Best, Play, Why

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.
Jamie Foxx

Mind, Thinking, Him

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon

Blessed, Basketball, Around

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
Marlee Matlin

Learned, Speak, Hear

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.
James Paget

Book, Both, Public

I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
Nathan Fillion

Trying, Often, Makes

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
Gloria Gaynor

Music, Live, Nothing

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
Rachel Roy

Important, Someone, Soul

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
Liza Minnelli

Special, Child, Idea

I can't compare family to athletics.
Joe Namath

Family, Athletics

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
Francoise Sagan

Writing, Question, Jazz

I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.
Guy Lafleur

Family, Together, Big

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
Willie Mays

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint

Few, Telling, Joys

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.
Diane Lane

Same, Others, Acting

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