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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."

"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."

"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."

"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying."

"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."

"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."

"Be different to make a difference."

"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."


"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"


"Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle."


"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed."


"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."


"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."


"Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that."


"No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it."
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