Quotes About Distinction

I am not Richard Branson.

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one of the many beautiful places along the Pacific Coast - but that's all. Once you put the bridge there, you distinguish it from any other place in the world.

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

taking in information is only distantly related to real learning. It would be nonsensical to say, "I just read a great book about bicycle riding—I've now learned that.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

In all these cases, we find that because of the way ancient writers write about, and rewrite, the past, it is often impossible to tell the difference between what we would call history on the one hand and midrash, legend, or expansion on the other. Perhaps the distinction is our problem: perhaps for ancient readers the notion of what really happened is not crucial.

a distinction that philosophers have proposed between "epistemic" and "aleatory" uncertainty.

Je dis : pourquoi moi ? Il dit : parce tu n'es pas du tout comme les autres, parce qu'on ne voit que toi sans que tu t'en rendes compte. Il ajoute cette phrase, pour moi inoubliable : parce que tu partiras et que nous resterons.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.

There might have been a thousand people who had a better athletic feat than what I did. So for me, just the fact that they gave Canadian Athlete of the Year - and also, I was voted third in the Male Athlete of the Year - the fact that some people did consider what I did an athletic feat, that really makes me feel good.

Kane and Glenn Jacobs are two separate entities, you know.

I tend to try and really separate my work from my real life.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

I don't really care about awards.

Of course awards matter.

I have not won far more awards than I have won.

I don't know anything about awards, I really don't.

No one can act like Bachchan saab or bat like Virender Sehwag.