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"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
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"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."


"I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off."


"It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect."


"I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train."


"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."


"One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!"


"The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago."
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