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Genius Quotes
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds."
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"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
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"Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation."
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"Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him."
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"Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?"
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"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
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"The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it."
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"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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"He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
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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."
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"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
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"All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery."
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"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
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"And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere."
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"I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius."
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"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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"The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature."
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"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."
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"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage."
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
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