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Quotes About Difference

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
~ Matt Taibbi
We will deploy our men and women in uniform only where there is a need, and where their presence can make a genuine difference in ensuring public safety and an easing of the humanitarian concerns at our southern border.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.
~ Svante Paabo
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
~ Rowan Williams
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
~ Shania Twain
The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.
~ Dianne Reeves
I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
~ Warren Spector
A goalkeeping unit is different from outfield; the psychology is different.
~ Robert Green
We are European citizens, as we are European citizens it means what we want to do is exactly like Scotland or Quebec. The difference is that the United Kingdom and Canada they are democratic countries. Spain today is not a democracy and this is the main problem.
~ Jordi Cuixart
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.
~ Joyce Giraud
I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.
~ John Hickenlooper
You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
~ Connie Nielsen
Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity' is intrinsically unjust because it demands equality of outcome and not equality of opportunity.
~ Miranda Devine
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
~ Sharon Stone
Unless you're getting a dollar slice, there's no real money difference between a chain and your local pizzeria.
~ Dave Portnoy
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
~ Larry Miller
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?
~ Christine Delphy
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
~ Candace Bushnell
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
~ Edward Abbey
I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Women are equal because they are not different any more.
~ Erich Fromm