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Difference Quotes


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


"Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest."


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


"Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both."


"And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use."


"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."


"I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference."


"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."


"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."


"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."



"I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference."



"I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy."


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



"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."


"There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself."


"What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other."



"Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference."


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


"I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference."


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


"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 was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?"


"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."


"The support in Britain made a big difference."


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



"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."


"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."



"I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely."


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


"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry."


"The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other."


"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."


"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."


"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 the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry."


"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."


"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."


"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."


"At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration."


"There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny."


"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."



"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."


"There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation."



"There is more difference within the sexes than between them."


"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."


"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room."


"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."


"There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it."


"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"
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