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Difference Quotes
"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 what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."
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"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
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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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"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."
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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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"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."
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"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."
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"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"
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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 think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."
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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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"With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track."
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"There's a big difference between sanity and insanity."
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"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room."
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"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
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"I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference."
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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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"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."
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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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"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 tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
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"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
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"Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film."
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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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"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."
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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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"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."
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"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
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"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
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"There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry."
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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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"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside."
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"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."
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"Little things can make such a big difference during recording."
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"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."
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"I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."
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"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the 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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"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."
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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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"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 difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."
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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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