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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."
95
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
61
"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."
55
"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
49
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
48
"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."
41
"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."
35
"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat."
34
"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."
28
"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."
24
"The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it."
21
"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."
19
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
18
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
17
"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil."
16
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
16
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
16
"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."
15
"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
15
"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
14
"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
14
"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
13
"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not."
13
"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not."
13
"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
13
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
13
"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."
13
"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
12
"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."
12
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
12
"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
12
"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!"
12
"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."
12
"I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros."
12
"You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."
11
"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
11
"I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."
11
"What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself."
11
"Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned."
11
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
11
"The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less."
11
"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."
11
"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."
11
"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."
11
"Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me."
10
"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."
10
"A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference."
10
"The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation."
10
"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
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