I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.
The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years – we have a lot of songs to pull from and it’s a different dynamic – a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows – it’s kind of a little like ‘hey, we’re this new band.’
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
There’s a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That’s what writers do when they’re good.
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I’ve never had any tension. You give the best you have – you win or lose. What’s the difference if you give all you’ve got to give?
Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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.
What’s the difference between herpes and love? Herpes is forever.
You never know. One point can make a difference in the end.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
I believe that I exist for the people. I’m just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.
There’s a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.
With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don’t like big houses, I don’t drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.
We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
I suppose I don’t hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it’s like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it’s one on one, and that’s exactly how I play.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That’s not how it works – community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
The main thing about being a producer and not a beatmaker, the difference is the ear.
Just to be honest, like I always am, I tip on my service. I think it’s a difference between good service and bad service, and just having a bad day.
I never do anything to make money. I do make money, but that’s because I do something. Big difference.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
I have my new food line in the works – I think it’s over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it’s delicious food that’s just so easy. I think it’ll help people enjoy their lives… it’s good!
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I’ve always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.
There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don’t invite the losing team to the White House. They don’t have parades for them. They don’t throw confetti on them.
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Our goal isn’t to go undefeated. Like, ‘Hey, we’re going to have an undefeated season.’ Our goal is to win every game we’re playing. And there’s a difference.
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Usually I try to represent my community and my culture the best that I can, but I go about every day just trying to represent my family. I’m just trying to make a difference out in the world. I don’t even look at, necessarily, just the Latin community, I’m looking at everything in general.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
There’s a big difference, as I’m sure you know, it’s a slightly manneristic one, between people of the ’60s and people of ’68. Being a soixante-huitard – it’s so nice to have a French word for it – is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the ’60s.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, ‘Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,’ and that makes all the difference.
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn’t cry coming in. There’s a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
Pressure is a positive thing and it makes no difference on your performance if it is not there.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
There’s always some difference between your Latino and African-American communities. But we definitely have more similarities than differences.
Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ And I think a lot of people don’t understand that there’s a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying ‘I love peace’ doesn’t bring it.