#equivalent

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

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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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They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. ↗

— Napolean Hill

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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

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I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#away #because #cooking #creative #creative process