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The Great Gatsby
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Difference Quotes

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23. Scout to Jem, after he divides the world up into four types of people. She tries to find the shared humanity between all of Jem’s groups and believes that every person is born equal, regardless of their race or class. She has inherited her father’s tolerence and belief that people are more alike than different.

Flair is what marks the difference between artistry and mere competence.

– Cmdr. William Riker

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Time Squared’.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

– Gustav Mahler

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

– Harri Holkeri

There’s a difference between fair game and playing games.

– Hillary Clinton

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I – not a hell of a lot of difference.

– George Gaynes

NASA has made a difference.

– Gregory H. Johnson

The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn’t is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

– Hanya Yanagihara

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.

– Helen Wills Moody

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

– Henry Adams

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

– Herman Melville

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

– Gaylord Perry

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

– Hunter S. Thompson

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

– Hans Hofmann

One victory more or less doesn’t make the difference for me now.

– Hermann Maier

I don’t see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn’t matter.

– Genelia D’Souza

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.

– George Edmund Street

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

– Gagan Narang

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

– Herman Cain

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.

– Hector Elizondo

As many as half of Ethiopia’s girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

– Helene D. Gayle

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

– Henri Matisse

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

– James Thurber

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

– Julian Baggini

There’s a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

– John Boyega

If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you’ll really see a difference.

– Jai Courtney

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal’s secret.

– Jane Velez-Mitchell

London and L.A. are two opposites – I like the difference.

– Jason Statham

There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

– Josh Gad

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

– Jacqueline Novogratz

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