Genius Quotes

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Missy Elliott

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

George Eliot

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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

Linda Blair

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Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

Luca Guadagnino

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

Kenneth Branagh

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When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'

Louis D. Brandeis

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I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness.

Isaiah Washington

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Oh, 'Step Brothers' is genius. I could watch that film a thousand times.

Justin Kurzel

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It's called 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It's the greatest book I've ever.

Justin Hartley

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If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

Jay Parini

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Francis Herbert Hedge

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There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

Jamie Lawson

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The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

Jason Robert Brown

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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Akira Kurosawa

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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

James Lipton

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I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

Josh Hopkins

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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Honore de Balzac

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I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

Joseph Lancaster

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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.

Hilton Als

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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli

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