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Difference Quotes


"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."


"It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine."


"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."


"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."



"There is a profound difference between information and meaning."


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."


"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."


"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."


"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."


"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."



"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."


"Be different to make a difference."


"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."


"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."


"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."


"Our differences are the real treasures."


"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."


"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."


"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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