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The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them.
Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.
When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.
It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think our distinction is we make it well in America.
I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
I make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam, recognizing that there are many moderate Muslims.
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don't want. They all share one thing, and that's the work ethic.
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
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.
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.
Rarely was a distinction deserves as the Oscar for best supporting actor, who went to the late Heath Ledger. His 'Joker' is really incredible.
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.
We must draw a distinction between understanding and supporting Israel's values and existence, and criticising any Israeli government's policy.
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.
Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.