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Difference Quotes


"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."


"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."


"I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."


"One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you."


"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."


"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."


"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."


"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."


"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."


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


"Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."


"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."


"There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different."


"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."


"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."


"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."


"It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do."


"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."


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


"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit."


"After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that."


"I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference."


"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."


"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."


"There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar."


"I know the difference between black magic and white magic."


"We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet."


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


"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."


"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."


"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."



"I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference."


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


"The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser."


"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside."


"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity."


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


"Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works."


"We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide."


"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."


"The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious."


"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."


"It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good."


"I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference."
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