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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
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On being banned (as a hereditary peer) from the House of Lords: There`s no question that the old system was unfair. I mean, why should you be born to this? But now it`s all just sheer cronyism. The Prime Minister can put in whoever he wants and bus them i...
Christopher Guest
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It`s funny. I`m now in a more senior position and yet those feelings of sheer utter excitment of going to work just don`t exist any more. - on ER
Alex Kingston
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I saw Taxi Driver (1976) five or six times in the first week, and I was astonished by its sheer visceral beauty. I just kept going back - I didn`t know America, but that was a glimpse of what America might be, and I realized that, contrary to expectation,...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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My relationship with Hollywood isn`t love-hate, it`s love-contempt. I`ve never had to suffer any of the indignities that one associates with the studio system. I`ve always been independent in New York by sheer good luck. But I have an affection for Hollyw...
Woody Allen
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It was always assumed that the classics were a good line of work for me because I had a decent voice and the right nose. But anybody who comes from an essentially cynical European society is going to be bewitched by the sheer enthusiasm of the New World. ...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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If you go to Hollywood, you`ve already sold out. By the sheer act of going there, you`re saying, `I need to go there because this is the only way I can get my movie made.` Baloney! Indiana`s the place to make your movie. Pontiac, Michigan. Whatever. Then ...
Bruce Campbell
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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you`re covered.
Andy Yakulis
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With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
Johnny Weissmuller
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When you look at the volume -- I think in `95, when they had the last slide, they were talking about 600,000 tons of sand and mud coming down -- there`s really nothing that can stop something of that magnitude. It`s almost completely a sheer cliff.
Anne Mills
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What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
Bobby Hull
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We saw nothing but sheer destruction,
Dan Taylor
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There was a lot of red tape, ... We were able to cut through some of that by sheer force.
Barry Belcourt
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The sheer magnitude and frequency of wholesale price rallies are such that absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.
Andrew Hill
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
Vincent D`Onofrio
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The idea is treating lingerie like a real garment - it`s very chic to see your underwear now, especially a bra. I wear great bras I know people will see under sheer blouses.
Ashlee Smith
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Suffice to say, I have waited for something I can sing and play with sheer truth, ... The band is great, Didz is grand, and I am feeling alive again. We will be playing live before you know it.
Carl Barat
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Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.
Fritz Kreisler
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O`Connor
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Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
George Crumb
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It`s through sheer will that I can sing.
Harvey Fierstein
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It`s sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.
Eva Gabor
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It`s impressive how such a tiny creature in sheer numbers can drive you insane.
Jason Hill
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It was a terrifying moment, and a moment of sheer relief, ... I saw that there was exactly enough room in the soft tissue betweenthe outside of my face, and the beginning of my skull, there was just enough room to hold that bullet.
Marc Cohn
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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry`s decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Andre Artero
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In addition to just the sheer communication, if we succeed with this, there will be enormous benefits in terms of coordination, and we`ll actually be able to save lives.
Jason Bell
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If this had happened in the third week of September, it would have been sheer chaos,
David Marshall
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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
Al Fracassa
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I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.
Martha Reeves
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I originated the character out of sheer necessity and a bit of intuition. They tell me I went on. But all I remember is walking in a London Fog.
Judy Holliday
