Genius Quotes
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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I never said I was a genius.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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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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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
