Quotes About Distinction

I don't know how one can differentiate between comedies. A burger is a burger and though it may taste differently in different food joints, the fact remains that it is still a burger. It's the same with comedies.

In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

I've used the word 'compliant' environment, and what that means is it's absolutely right that we have an environment in terms of our immigration policy that distinguishes between people that are here legally and those that are here illegally.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

In my opinion, to be No. 1 in the world and to be the best player in the world, it's a little bit different.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.

There is a difference between being a wrestler and being a pro wrestler.

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. Even a bowed mirror works primarily by engaging the eyes, and she who centers herself in its surface is unlikely to notice anyone in the background who lacks a certain status, distinction.

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Steve Jobs taught me that little details separate the mediocre from the excellent.

Los hombres de más amplio intelecto saben que no existe una verdadera distinción entre lo real y lo irreal; que todas las cosas aparecen tal como son tan solo en virtud de los frágiles sentidos físicos y mentales mediante los que las percibimos; pero el prosaico materialismo de la mayoría tacha de locuras a los destellos de clarividencia que traspasan el vulgar velo del empirismo chabacano.

Los hombres de más amplio intelecto saben que no existe una verdadera distinción entre lo real y lo irreal; que todas las cosas aparecen tal como son tan sólo en virtud de los frágiles sentidos físicos y mentales mediante los que las percibimos; pero el prosaico materialismo de la mayoría tacha de locuras a los destellos de clarividencia que traspasan el vulgar velo del empirismo soez

Decisive in our context is that totalitarian government is different from dictatorships and tyrannies; the ability to distinguish between them is by no means an academic issue which could be safely left to the "theoreticians," for total domination is the only form of government with which coexistence is not possible.

Quinton and Rampage are not the same person. Quinton is kind of scruffy. The Rampage is the toughest dude you'll ever want to meet.

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.