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“The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.”

Law Morality Letters Officers Mentality Law Enforcement Enforcement Similarity

Author:Benjamin McKenzie

“Comparing Isco to Zidane isn't ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn't there yet but could come close in the future.”

Said Term Ability Position Judging Ridiculous Compare Similarity Zidane

Author:Carlo Ancelotti

“In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are...just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.”

Looks I Can Together Degrees Findings Expected Twins Domain Identical Similarity Identical Twin

Author:Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

“It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.”

Hard Reason Christian Suspects Scholar Pagan Similarity Dogmatic

Author:Robert M. Price

“I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.”

People Thinking Want Speak Fire Mets Profession Buttons Rapids Similarity Eloquent Generalization Legal Profession Barristers

Author:Rebecca Hall

“He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.”

Political Liberty Five Minutes Five Minutes Similarity Political Equality

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.”

Thinking World Way Different Hard Character Guy Certain Fighting Actors Situation Pieces Circumstances Inevitable Privileged This Guy Similarity

Author:Dustin Clare

“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.”

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Author:William Monahan

“I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.”

Mean Sound Happened Germany Minors Similarity Ww2

Author:David Cross

“I loved Jen Garner in Alias. I think there are similarities, but we're definitely a very different show [Nikita]. I think it's cool to have women who are strong, kicking some ass.”

Thinking Different Shows Strong Ass Similarity Kicking Aliases

Author:Lyndsy Fonseca

“Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.”

Humans Culture Differences Human Beings Ultimate Similarity Cultural Exchange

Author:Chuck D

“We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.”

Ifs Reality Results Watches Wall Pure Shadow Profound Convinced Passing Passings Plato Caves Projection Similarity Epoch Plato S Live Simply Passing On Plato's Cave

Author:Jose Saramago

“The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.”

People Photography Concern Cameras Instruments Threat Sensitive Appropriate Mortality Fleeting Vans Similarity Haiku Good Photography

Author:Dennis Stock

“You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.”

Ifs Way Certain Records Stones Heavy Similarity

Author:John Lennon

“Hatebreed is a fantastic band. They've been around for ten years and they're going really strong. But Hatebreed -- when you compare them to Agnostic Front, we're two completely different bands. There are a few similarities, but Hatebreed is a lot heavier.”

Years Two Different Strong Fronts Band Ten Fantastic Compare Agnostic Similarity

Author:Roger Miret

“I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.”

Thinking World Giving Looks Kind Names Modern Music Is Built Hearing Similarity Ghetto World Music Modern Music African Music

Author:Baaba Maal

“Ethnic music the world 'round is quite fascinating," "There are an enormous number of similarities there, and it's the similarities that are so appealing. ... I haven't even scratched the surface of that kind of thing.”

World Kind Numbers Havens Rounds Surface Enormous Fascinating Similarity

Author:John Renbourn

“I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.”

Trying Stealing Similarity

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.”

Believe Bigs Cities New York Apples Comparison New York City Believe In Me Similarity New Yorkers Laid Back Hectic Kalamazoo

Author:Derek Jeter

“It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.”

People Easy Differences Focus Harder Similarity

Author:Chali 2na

“With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the oil gushing? I couldn't stop watching that.”

Way Earth Remember Hurt Ocean Oil Video Bleeding Similarity Drains Tubes Spills Infection

Author:Eve Ensler

“Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.”

Stills Two Sometimes Strong Consciousness Influence Drawing Assumption Collectives Similarity Zeitgeist Collective Consciousness

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too.”

Feels Trying Wells Looks Different Artist Community Forget Periods Complicated Make Sense Similarity Nuance

Author:Missy Mazzoli

“I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.”

“I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because that's kind of the genre we're paying tribute to, so there are some similarities to a lot of films, because they all feed off each other!”

Thinking Want Kind Art Film One Thing Genre Consistent Martial Arts Tribute Similarity

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.”

Men Form Individual Differences Opinion Fellows Fellow Man Similarity

Author:Brendan Dooling

“An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.”

Important Song Realizing Listening Grew Grew Up Grateful Meetings Transition Jam Similarity Djs

Author:Avey Tare

“There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.”

People Young Similarity Respectability

Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.

“The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.”

“Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.”

World Way Want Children Different Problem Spiritual Values Differences Solutions Around The World Supposed To Be Mates Spiritual Life Homeless Refugee Similarity

Author:Surya Das

“Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.”

Philosophy Differences Tradition Notes Western Philosopher Access Preparation Asian Similarity

Author:Jay L. Garfield

“When you jump on a city bus or roam the streets off the major thoroughfares you'll quickly learn that we have as many differences as similarities. And therein lie the greatest opportunities for innovation - our different ways of viewing the world and coming up with solutions!”

World Way Different Lying Opportunity Differences Cities Streets Majors Solutions Innovation Different Ways Bus Similarity City Bus

Author:David Livermore

“I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.”

Way Play Five Type Guitar Definite Orchestra Symphony Similarity Symphony Orchestras

Author:Glenn Branca

“The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.”

Self Whole Bigs Used Lines Pieces Property Similarity Straight Lines

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.”

Self Used Cases Subjects Shapes Familiar Planes Dull Far Away Similarity

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.”

World Form Understanding Pay Regard Remains Embrace Taoism Indifferent Sage Similarity

Author:Lie Yukou

“We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.”

People Way Kind Stills Matter Play Whole Seems Results Seeing Abstract Being Yourself Lenses Similarity

Author:Q-Tip

“We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.”

People Needs Looks Seems Black Differences White Gay Similarity Black Or White

Author:James Blunt

“If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.”

Ifs Looks Done Able Turns Cost Disease Capacity Increase Cancer Cures Cells Experts Solitary Similarity Vaccines Computing Genome Genomics

Author:Joe Biden

“As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.”

Needs Trying Community Democracy Demand African American Officials Biographies Always Trying Similarity Representing Reconcile Elected Officials Affiliation

Author:Barack Obama

“Whether you're playing a mom on-screen or you're in a car pool lane driving your child to school in the morning, there are similarities that are undeniable. And once you're a mother, there are certain things that are instinct. You just have a better understanding of what it means to be a mother.”

Mean Children School Mother Certain Understanding Morning Car Mom Our Children Instinct Screens Driving Your Children Pool Lanes Similarity

Author:Nia Long

“There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list.”

Doe Might Development Fit Currents Lists Putin Similarity Erdogan

Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.”

Character Cry Baby I Realized Similarity Cry Baby

Author:Melanie Martinez

“Ralph Angel, for me, was about getting in touch with the similarities between the characters. I felt like he was a human being that I knew and [somebody] that I've been and am currently still exploring.”

Humans Stills Character Felt Human Beings Angel Exploring Similarity

Author:Kofi Siriboe

“About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.”

“The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.”

Men Faces Father Moral Virtue Blood Son Ought Ties Good Man Similarity

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.”

Thinking Play Games Fun Situation Despite Having Fun Outcomes Something New Repetition Similarity

Author:Ian Bogost

“The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.”

Way Government Courses Influence Media Materials Goes On Elements Function Corporate Concentration Google Very Powerful Similarity Amazon Government Work

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's interesting, there are a lot of similarities with being in the music business or being in a band, where a lot of it is business work you've gotta do, like emails. It's weird, I don't feel like I'm in charge.”

Feels Interesting Band Email Music Business Similarity

Author:Gerard Way

“What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.”

Thinking World Looks Culture Term Interesting Draws Contrast Really Interesting Similarity Disruption Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats