Equate Quotes

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

Life, Death, Matter

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter

Freedom, Democracy, Christian

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
Jerry Saltz

Money, Value, Content

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
John Mayer

Dating, Woman, Guilt

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould

Mirror, Either, Survival

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.
Jennifer M. Granholm

While, Veterans, Congress

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
Lena Dunham

High, Level, Tattoos

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
Rainn Wilson

Times, Charity, Tricky

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
Jennifer Lopez

Men, Sexy, Around

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm

Strength, Gratitude, Words

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
Kevin Costner

Movies, Everybody, Films

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
Dan Stevens

Happiness, Family, Time

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Gary Bauer

Marriage, Woman, Between

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele Commager

Men, Patriotism, Find

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
Graham Nash

War, Important, Try

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.
Josh Silver

Life, Art, Down

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.
Simon Baker

Love, Good, Successful

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
Alex Ferguson

Sympathy, Try, Working

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
Wilt Chamberlain

Game, Career, Same

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Life, Success, Age

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.
Sandra Oh

Work, Nice, Fun

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
Rob Brydon

Success, Marriage, Happiness

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Success, Feeling, Role

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.
William Baldwin

Wrestling, Marine, Corps

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Mike Schmidt

Time, Baseball, Black

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
DJ Jazzy Jeff

Success, Music, Happiness

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
Olivia De Havilland

Time, Long, Remember

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis

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