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Todd Gitlin

"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."

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Donna Grant

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

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Donna Grant

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

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Donna Grant

"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."

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Donna Grant

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

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Donna Grant

"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."

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Donna Grant

"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."

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Donna Grant

"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."

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Donna Grant

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

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Donna Grant

"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."

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Donna Grant

"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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Todd Gitlin
"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."

Media

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Todd Gitlin
"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."

Change

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Todd Gitlin
"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions."

Movies

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Todd Gitlin
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."

Politics

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Todd Gitlin
"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."

Change

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Todd Gitlin
"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."

Sports

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Todd Gitlin
"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."

Genius

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Todd Gitlin
"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."

Heart

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Todd Gitlin
"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives."

People

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Todd Gitlin
"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."

Experience

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