"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."

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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, American Comedian

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A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

May Sarton, American Poet

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

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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, American Historian

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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, English Poet

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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

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"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."

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"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words."

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"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

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"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."

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"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."

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"Spare no expense to save money on this one."

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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."

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