"If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference."
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"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
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"Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right."
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"The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up."
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"If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference."
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"We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy."
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"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
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"I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first."
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"The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences."
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"I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been."
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"If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us."
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"People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'"
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"If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it."
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"O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due."
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"I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore."
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"Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are."
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"You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend."
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"In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended."
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"I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid."
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"Small changes can make huge destination differences."
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