Victor Hugo Quotes
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
Quotes to Explore
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
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Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.
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I always have issues with trust.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
