Genius Quotes
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Firstly, I’m a genius. Musically, culturally, everything.
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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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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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I never said I was a genius.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
