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Difference Quotes
"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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"As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers."
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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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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
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"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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 sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
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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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"Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
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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. But, in practice, there is."
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"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."
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"The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference."
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"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."
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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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"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."
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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 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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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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 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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"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 deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
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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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"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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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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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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