Genius Quotes
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming 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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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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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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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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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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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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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
