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Difference Quotes
"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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"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."
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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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"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
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"Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be."
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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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"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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"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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"I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is."
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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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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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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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"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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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."
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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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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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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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"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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"In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today."
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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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"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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"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
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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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"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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"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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"You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio."
35
"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying."
34
"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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"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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"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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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
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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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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"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."
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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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"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
33
"Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards."
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"The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag."
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"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."
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"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside."
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"You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference."
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"We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide."
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"I was naive enough to think that I could make the 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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