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"I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies."
"Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular."
"When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation."
"I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future."
"The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience."
"There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?"
"Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements."
"There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is."
"This will be my first Grand Slam final without Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic on the other side of the net, but I don't think being the more experienced player will make much difference to my approach."
"[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference."
"I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence."
"The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph."
"Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference."
"The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards."
"Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality"
"We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?"
"Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)"
"Each person can make their difference."
"I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to."
"The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television."
