Quotes About Difference

My dad was this pint-sized Nigerian with an oversized personality. My mother is a tall six foot something Irish-English woman. Us walking down the street was quite an unusual sight, when I was growing up.

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

We tapped into the abandoned mine land fund to pay for pensions, and that money was to clean up the mines, not make up the difference of what the companies stole from workers.

Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?