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Difference Quotes
"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
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"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."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."
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"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."
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"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."
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"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice."
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"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!"
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."
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"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."
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"I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is."
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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."
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"The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford."
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"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."
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"The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better."
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"As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers."
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"You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio."
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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."
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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
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"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
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"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
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"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
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"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
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"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
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"I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference."
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"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."
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"I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference."
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"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."
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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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"The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'."
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"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."
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"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
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"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."
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"When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes."
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"The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it."
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"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
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"In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts."
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"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
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