Genius Quotes
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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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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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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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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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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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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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
