Genius Quotes
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Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
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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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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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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 am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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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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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 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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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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.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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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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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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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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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
