Genius Quotes

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

Stephen Kinzer

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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Al Spalding

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I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

Prince

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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.

Lake Bell

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My favorite thing to do with my iPod was to shuffle my entire music collection and marvel at what songs came next. Sometimes the segues would be so perfect that it seemed a genius deejay was behind the wheel.

Steven Levy

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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Vivienne Westwood

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The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Susan Orlean

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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

J. B. Priestley

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If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb

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Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

Sarah Lacy

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One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.

Sheila Heti

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The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Kanye West

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Tony Robbins

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Todd Rundgren

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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

Hanya Yanagihara

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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Robert Blair

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Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

Neal McDonough

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Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

Rick Perlstein

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Donna Tartt is a genius.

Fiona Barton

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I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he's fantastic.

Robert Webb

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When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

Nelsan Ellis

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Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

Nina Arianda

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The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

Adam Mansbach

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