Genius Quotes

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

Andre Rieu

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

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The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

Cory Booker

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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Andre Malraux

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I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.

Emir Kusturica

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You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.

Clive Davis

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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.

Tabatha Coffey

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I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.

John Leguizamo

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My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.

Dylan Lauren

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There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

Brett Gelman

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thinking you're a genius is death.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.

David Eigenberg

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I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

Brittany Murphy

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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.

Patricia McBride

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

P. J. O'Rourke

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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Maurice Baring

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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I never said I was a genius.

Orson Welles

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