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Difference Quotes


"I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros."


"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."


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


"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."


"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."


"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."


"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."


"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."


"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."


"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."


"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."


"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."


"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."


"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."


"I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is."


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


"The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford."


"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."


"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."


"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."


"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."


"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."


"Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me."


"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe."


"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."


"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."


"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."


"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality."


"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."


"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."


"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."


"As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers."


"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."


"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."


"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."


"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."


"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."


"I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special."


"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."


"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."


"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."


"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."


"To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference."


"I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me."


"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."


"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."


"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."


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


"We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference."


"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."
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