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Difference Quotes
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
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"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."
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"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
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"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
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"I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution."
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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
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"The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color."
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"A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference."
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"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
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"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
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"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."
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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference."
"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"
"Be different to make a difference."
"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
"You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."
"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not."
"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
"And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use."
"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
"It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine."
"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 think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were."
"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"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."
"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."
"There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry."
"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
"Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me."
"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."
"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."
"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?"
"It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
"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."
"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
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