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Difference Quotes


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



"There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry."


"When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes."



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


"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."


"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers."


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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?"


"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."


"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."


"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!"


"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 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."


"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."


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


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


"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"There is just a major difference between the sound of analog tape and digital tape."


"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."


"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."


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


"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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