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Don't worry about being different; worry about being the same as everyone else.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Great minds discuss ideas before embracing differences.
Author:
Emily Butler
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If you want to make a difference, spread kindness like confetti.
Author:
Amanda Greene
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The only way to make a difference is to take a risk and be courageous in the face of adversity.
Author:
Evelyn Patel
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Let your uniqueness be your superpower, not your burden.
Author:
Angela Davis
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Don't be afraid to stand out, for it is in our uniqueness that our true greatness shines.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Do not be afraid to stand out in a world that often rewards conformity; your uniqueness is your greatest asset.
Author:
Helen Keller
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Do not be afraid to stand out and shine bright, for the world needs your unique light to illuminate the darkness.
Author:
Angela Davis
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Just because you stand out, doesn't mean you have to blend in.
Author:
Stephanie Ruhle
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Do not be afraid to stand out, for it is in our differences that our true beauty and strength lies.
Author:
Bianca Garcia
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Don't be afraid to stand out, for in your uniqueness lies your strength.
Author:
Jamie Anderson
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Instead of worrying about fitting in, focus on standing out.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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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.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
Author:
Steven Wright
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The support in Britain made a big difference.
Author:
Louise Woodward
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
Author:
John Wise
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.
Author:
Elizabeth Wilson
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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.
Author:
Roy Williams
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The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.
Author:
Roy Williams
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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It does make a difference what you call things.
Author:
Kate Wiggins
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Author:
Charlotte Whitton
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Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Author:
Christie Whitman
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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.
Author:
Kelli White
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In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Author:
Richard Whately
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I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.
Author:
Lynn Westmoreland
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The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
Author:
Lynn Westmoreland
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Author:
Rebecca West
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Author:
Rebecca West
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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Author:
Duke Wellington
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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.
Author:
Robert Welch
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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.
Author:
Len Wein
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I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
Author:
Len Wein
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I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
Author:
Kurt Weill
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Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
Author:
Ray Walston
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We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
Author:
Max Walker
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The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
Author:
Paul Volcker
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They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
Author:
Miroslav Vitous
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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.
Author:
David Viscott
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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.
Author:
Frederick Vinson
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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.
Author:
Roger Vadim
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I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
Author:
Tracey Ullman
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I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
Author:
Mo Udall
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It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
Author:
Shania Twain
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Author:
Mark Twain
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
Author:
Tina Turner
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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
Author:
Tina Turner
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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
Author:
Anthea Turner
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Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.
Author:
Robin Tunney
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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Author:
Joanna Trollope
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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
Author:
Randy Travis
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
Author:
Rip Torn
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Author:
James Thurber
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
Author:
Edward Thorndike
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The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.
Author:
Peter Thomson
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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.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
Author:
Isaiah Thomas
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Author:
Edwin Teale
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
Author:
James Taylor
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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.
Author:
David Talbot
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As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
Author:
Jalal Talabani
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If you care enough, you make a difference.
Author:
Loretta Swit
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Author:
Charles Swindoll
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It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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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.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
Author:
Maurice Strong
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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
Author:
George Street
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Author:
W. Stone
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People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Author:
Robert Stone
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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
Author:
I. Stone
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How can we live and die and never know the difference?
Author:
Clyfford Still
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Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Author:
Potter Stewart
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Author:
Howard Stern
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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
Author:
Neal Stephenson
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The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
Author:
Neal Stephenson
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Author:
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Author:
Anne Stael
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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
Author:
Sonia Sotomayor
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I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.
Author:
Sammy Sosa
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
Author:
Robert Solomon
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Author:
Ricky Skaggs
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Author:
Diogenes Sinope
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I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
Author:
Jessica Simpson
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
Author:
Paul Simon
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
Author:
William Sherman
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The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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There is just a major difference between the sound of analog tape and digital tape.
Author:
Kenny Shepherd
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Author:
George Shaw
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
Author:
George Shaw
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This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.
Author:
Omar Sharif
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I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
Author:
Maria Sharapova
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The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
Author:
Donna Shalala
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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Author:
Eric Sevareid
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
Author:
Bob Seger
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
Author:
Jill Scott
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Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing.
Author:
Annabella Sciorra
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In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Author:
Charles Schulz
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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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.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Author:
David Sarnoff
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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
Author:
David Sarnoff
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.
Author:
Eriq Salle
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So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.
Author:
Eriq Salle
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He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
Author:
Pierre Salinger
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Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
Author:
Mort Sahl
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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Author:
Vita Sackville-West
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We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.
Author:
Lillian Russell
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
Author:
Kurt Russell
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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.
Author:
Jimmy Rushing
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Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.
Author:
Dante Rossetti
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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
Author:
Richard Rorty
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
Author:
Betty Rollin
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Author:
Will Rogers
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
Author:
Will Rogers
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Author:
Will Rogers
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It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
Author:
James Rogers
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The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
Author:
Nicolas Roeg
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One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
Author:
Bob Riley
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It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.
Author:
Rihanna
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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.
Author:
Jeremy Rifkin
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For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
Author:
Bill Richardson
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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.
Author:
Ruggiero Ricci
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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.
Author:
Ruggiero Ricci
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There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.
Author:
Tommy Rettig
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But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
Author:
Mitchell Reiss
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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
Author:
Robert Reich
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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.
Author:
Scott Reed
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It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
Author:
Henry Reed
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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
Author:
James Randi
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There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
Author:
Thomas Pynchon
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Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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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.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
Author:
Frederick Pollock
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It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
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Rick Pitino
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Wendell Phillips
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There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
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Gaylord Perry
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So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
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Philippe Perrin
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
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Richard Perle
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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Norman Peale
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Danica Patrick
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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Blaise Pascal
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Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.
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Tom Palmer
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I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
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Sarah Palin
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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Vance Packard
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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Ovid
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George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
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Patton Oswalt
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I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
Author:
Buzz Osborne
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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George Orwell
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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.
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Leo Ornstein
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The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.
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Tony Oliva
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Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
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Conan O'Brien
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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Barack Obama
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Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.
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John Oates
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
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Edmund North
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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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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Louise Nevelson
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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.
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Bebe Neuwirth
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Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.
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Michael Nesmith
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Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
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Horatio Nelson
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People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.
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David Neeleman
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Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
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Richard Needham
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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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Anna Neagle
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The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
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Martina Navratilova
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Ralph Nader
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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.
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Michael Musto
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
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Robert Musil
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I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
Author:
Sunny Murray
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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.
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Patrick Murray
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
Author:
Kate Mulgrew
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The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.
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John Motson
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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Constance Motley
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I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.
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David Morse
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Toni Morrison
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
Author:
Karl Moritz
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Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
Author:
Marc Morial
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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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Daniel Moran
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Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
Author:
Charles Moore
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The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
Author:
Helen Moody
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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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Maria Montessori
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Author:
Ashley Montague
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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Author:
Marvin Minsky
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
Author:
Laura Miller
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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Larry Miller
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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
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Jonathan Miller
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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Henry Miller
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Author:
Barbara Mikulski
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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Vic Mignogna
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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.
Author:
Nicholas Meyer
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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?
Author:
Ethel Merman
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In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
Author:
Rick Mercer
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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H. Mencken
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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H. Mencken
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
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Herman Melville
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What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.
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John Mellencamp
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Author:
Golda Meir
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We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.
Author:
Kendrick Meek
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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.
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John McGahern
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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
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John McGahern
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Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.
Author:
Craig McCracken
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It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
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Norma McCorvey
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
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John McCarthy
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I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
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Martina McBride
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A good video can make all the difference.
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Brian May
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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
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Robert Maxwell
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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.
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Chris Matthews
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Henri Matisse
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I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.
Author:
Mary Masterson
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The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.
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Olivier Martinez
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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Orison Marden
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Author:
Kamisese Mara
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Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
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Marilyn Manson
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I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
Author:
Marilyn Manson
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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
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Maxwell Maltz
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Author:
Andre Malraux
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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
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Maimonides
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.
Author:
Hermann Maier
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
Author:
Gustav Mahler
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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Author:
Gustav Mahler
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
Author:
Kyle MacLachlan
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Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.
Author:
Catharine MacKinnon
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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
Author:
Ali MacGraw
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I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
Author:
Andie MacDowell
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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
Author:
Wangari Maathai
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
Author:
Wangari Maathai
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Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
Author:
Frank Luntz
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I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
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Lydia Lunch
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The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Author:
Emil Ludwig
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
Author:
Gary Lucas
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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
Author:
James Lipton
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Author:
Charles Lint
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The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.
Author:
Tom Leykis
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There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
Author:
Michael Lewis
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What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
Author:
James Levine
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
Author:
Annie Leibovitz
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz