Genius Quotes

Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.

Toni Collette

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Todd Gitlin

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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Hannah More

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It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

Robbie Robertson

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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.

Randy Newman

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Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Timothy Olyphant

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People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.

Garfield Sobers

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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

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I have so many funny friends that I hang out and do bits with, and the fact that we can hire each other is amazing. I asked all of them to help make 'Kroll Show' the best that it can be. I'm selfishly trying to use their funny genius for my own benefit.

Nick Kroll

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The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini

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Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.

Ruby Dee

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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Marcus Garvey

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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

Richard Attenborough

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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Aaron Yoo

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I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.

Martin Short

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I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.

James Clapper

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In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

Martin Jacques

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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Damien Hirst

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Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

Michelle Obama

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The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Kathleen Winsor

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I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.

Lindsey Buckingham

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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.

E. F. Schumacher

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