Equivalent Quotes

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

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.

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

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

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

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

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

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

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

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.