A Quote by Jamie Wyeth

The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.

Jamie Wyeth

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Jamie Wyeth
American - Artist
Born: July 6, 1946

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Robert Vaughn

I've been compared to so many people - Streisand, Celine - it doesn't bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?

Lara Fabian

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Kurt Vonnegut

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

Owen Farrell

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

Saint John Chrysostom

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.

Nithya Menen

Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.

David Blunkett

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Mariah Carey

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Mariah Carey

Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.

George Stigler

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

Phil Jones

If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.

Hans Haacke

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

Michael Phelps

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.