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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."

"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."

"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."

"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
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"Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands."

"Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!"

"When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience."

"A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world."

"We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place."

"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."

"People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius."
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