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Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.
Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn't a famous bisexual equivalent - it's a lot rarer.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
I was captain of the soccer and basketball teams in high school, and I was the equivalent of class president.
A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.
Mini-skirts, Prada and Agnes B are for New York and L.A. Washington is more America's equivalent of Marks & Spencer.
I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.
Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.
Women are not a doormat. We are equivalent to men. It is just that we have different bodies and different biological needs.
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.
I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.
The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.
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.
I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.
In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker.
Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.
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 are lots of things that could be done. We could get more help from the UCI, like forcing Pro-Tour teams to have a women's equivalent.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
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 agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.
The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.
I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.