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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King
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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren`s grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and kn...
Plato
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Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.
Mary Kay Blakely
Keywords: after :: all :: amend :: and :: assault :: attitudes :: by :: coronary :: divorce :: equivalent :: habits :: heart :: is :: it :: led :: monumental :: of :: on :: pass :: psychological :: such :: takes :: that :: the :: to :: triple :: up :: yearsSubject: Divorce QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
Shirley Chisholm
Keywords: all :: and :: antiblack :: antifemale :: antihumanism :: are :: discrimination :: end :: equivalent :: forms :: in :: of :: same :: the :: thing :: toSubject: Discrimination QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
Keywords: among :: as :: churchgoing :: considered :: equivalent :: father :: mountains :: my :: of :: the :: walkSubject: Family Quotes :: Fathers QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.
Steve Buscemi
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I wouldn`t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
Frank Lloyd Wright
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During an interview with Roger Ebert regarding his film Munich (2005) and the response from Jewish critics that claim it depicts Israeli and Palestinian causes as morally equivalent: Frankly, I think that`s a stupid charge. The people who attack the movie...
Steven Spielberg
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[on adjusting to life in New York:] "My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don`t want to stay inside for fear they`ll go crazy. I`ve also found television re...
Samantha Bee
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Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
Jenna Jameson
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And I do think there`s a new crop of American filmmakers coming. And they`re in high school right now. They`re in Mrs. Dawson`s English class! They`ve got new tools, they`ve got computers and the video cameras, which are the equivalent of our super-8mm tr...
Sam Raimi
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Stephen King
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I think I was 8 or 9 when I had a f*cking mad thing for Marilyn Monroe. I used to leave Smarties, the Irish equivalent of M&M`s, under my pillow with a little note saying, `I know you`re dead, but these are very f*cking tasty, and you should come have a f...
Colin Farrell
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(On Paul Reubens 1991 arrest for indecent exposure): "The loss he took for what allegedly happened is the equivalent of somebody`s getting 20 years for having a joint in their wallet."
Phil Hartman
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I cheered competitively all through high school and then did two dance teams. I was on a team equivalent to a JV squad where we did like women`s basketball, I did that my Freshman year. I took my Sophomore year off. Then when I transferred to UNCW, I join...
Bevin Prince
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My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don`t know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Steve Buscemi
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn`t an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Andrzej Wajda
Keywords: american :: an :: because :: but :: case :: cinema :: coming :: does :: english :: entertainment :: equivalent :: exist :: france :: from :: global :: industry :: is :: isn :: italy :: language :: opens :: or :: simply :: the :: there :: this :: to :: whole :: why :: worldSource: brainyquote.com
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What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
Richard Attenborough
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term `mute music`.
Alice Koeller
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What happens is there`s an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. It`s the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans.
Jim Baker
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We will have a cyber-equivalent of Pearl Harbor at some time, and we do not want to wait for that wake-up call.
Armando Gutierrez
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We were told that if we managed to lose, each player involved in the `fix` would be paid £100. It may seem like a piffling amount to receive in exchange for your football soul, but back then it was the equivalent of ten weeks` wages.
Andy Saenz
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Apichart Sankary
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This is the equivalent of trying to sedate a dinosaur.
Larry Dunn
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it`s expensive to boot.
Barney Frank
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
Ali Fabbro
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The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator.
Ann Donovan
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The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
Alan Walters
