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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."
83
"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."
43
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
41
"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
37
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
34
"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."
29
"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."
29
"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."
24
"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."
15
"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat."
15
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
12
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
12
"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
11
"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."
11
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
10
"The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it."
10
"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil."
9
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
9
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
9
"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."
9
"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
8
"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."
8
"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
8
"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not."
7
"I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
7
"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems."
7
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
7
"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."
7
"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."
7
"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
6
"It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like."
6
"A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference."
6
"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
6
"To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference."
6
"Little things can make such a big difference during recording."
6
"Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film."
6
"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not."
6
"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."
6
"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
6
"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
6
"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
5
"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."
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