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"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor."
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"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."
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
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"The difference with me is that I did inhale."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."
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"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."
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"So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare."
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"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet."
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"Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated."
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"Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished."
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"I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs."
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
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"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do."
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"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee."
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"Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages."
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"I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there."
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