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Tag Name "Sheer" (355)

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Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
George Orwell
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Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
Donald Trump
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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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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
Walt Disney
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
Wayne White
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Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.
Robert Benchley
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oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy
Frank O'Hara
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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.
Diana Wynne Jones
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Bette Davis
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Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
Albert Einstein
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Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.
Fred Hoyle
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I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
Don Henley
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Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
Beverley Nichols
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As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
Albert J. Nock
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels
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I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
Donald Trump
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Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.
Billy Zane
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
Alexander McCall Smith
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Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.
Chris Kraus
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On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
Bobby Orr
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Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Alexander Pushkin
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