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Difference Quotes
"I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference."
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"Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me."
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"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
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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."
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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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"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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"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 difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
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"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."
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"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."
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"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe."
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"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."
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"It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do."
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"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."
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"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense."
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"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."
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"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."
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"We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide."
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"There is a profound difference between information and meaning."
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"I know the difference between black magic and white magic."
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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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"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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"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."
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"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."
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"Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does."
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"I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot."
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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 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."
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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 only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
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"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."
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"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."
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"I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level."
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"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."
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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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"It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!"
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish."
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"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
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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 think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers."
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"Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike."
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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
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"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor."
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"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
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"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."
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"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit."
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