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"It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood."
"The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation."
"What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?"
"For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection."
"True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference."
"Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part."
"Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss."
"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
"Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right. Being frightened when you're not sure you're all right is a big difference."
"The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas."
"There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is."
"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity."
"Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over."
"The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved."
"The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."
"The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss."
"The fact that [Hillary Clinton] is pushing for paid family leave and also for [affordable] childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference."
"I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution."
"How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims."
"There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist."
