#equivalent

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible. ↗

— David Oyelowo

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For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth. ↗

— Laura Riding

#literary #truth

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

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For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show. ↗

— John Sebastian

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