When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.
~By Amy Irving ~
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
~By Stockwell Day ~
I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.
~By Phil Collins ~
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.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
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.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
~By John McCain ~
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
~By Huston Smith ~
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
~By Peter Singer ~
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
~By Birch Bayh ~
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.
~By Betty Rollin ~
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.
~By Sharon Gless ~
Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
~By Anita Hill ~
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.
~By James Levine ~
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
~By Aaron Allston ~
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.
~By John Boehner ~
I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
~By Gordon Smith ~
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
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.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
~By Michael Enzi ~
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
~By John Pomfret ~
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
~By Nolan Bushnell ~
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.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
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.
~By Omar Sharif ~
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
~By John Keats ~
There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
~By Gaylord Perry ~
I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
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.
~By Catharine MacKinnon ~
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
~By Norman Lamm ~
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
~By Andre Gide ~
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
~By Jenny Craig ~
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.
~By Lesley Gore ~
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
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.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.
~By John Ashcroft ~
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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.
~By Ellen Terry ~
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
~By Penn Jillette ~
But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
How can we live and die and never know the difference?
~By Clyfford Still ~
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
~By King Hussein I ~
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
~By Thomas Arnold ~
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.
~By Vilhjalmur Stefansson ~
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.
~By Bob Riley ~
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
~By Sergey Brin ~
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.
~By Anastacia ~
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
~By Brendan Behan ~
I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.
~By Howard Finster ~
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
~By Charles Kettering ~
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
~By Norman Cousins ~
It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
~By John Barrow ~
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.
~By John Yoo ~
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
~By Laura Dern ~
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
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.
~By Steve Garvey ~
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
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.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
~By Richard Perle ~
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
~By Charles Barkley ~
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
~By Anne Hutchinson ~
The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
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.
~By Larry Miller ~
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
~By Brian Eno ~
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
~By Charles Dickens ~
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