Genius Quotes
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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.
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I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
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I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
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Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Sticking to it is the genius.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
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Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
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Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
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When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.
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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
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I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
