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Difference Quotes


"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."


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


"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."


"We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."


"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."


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


"The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford."


"Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be."


"The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish."


"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 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."


"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."


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


"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."


"You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio."


"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."


"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."


"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."


"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."


"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."


"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."


"I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference."


"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."


"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."


"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."


"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."


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


"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense."


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


"Be different to make a difference."



"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."


"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."


"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."


"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."


"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."


"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."


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


"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."


"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!"


"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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