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Difference Quotes



"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."



"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."


"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."



"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."


"I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution."



"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."


"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."



"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."


"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat."



"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."


"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."



"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."


"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."


"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."


"With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track."


"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil."


"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."


"After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that."



"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"


"The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it."


"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."


"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."


"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."


"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."



"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."


"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not."


"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."


"A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference."


"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."


"I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference."


"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not."


"I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."


"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity."



"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."


"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."


"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."


"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."


"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."


"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."



"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."


"The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands."


"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."


"All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department."



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


"One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you."


"NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though."


"Little things can make such a big difference during recording."


"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."


"Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be."
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