Brilliant Minds Quotes - Page 2

• Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Kings, Powerful, Heart

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Discovery, Mind

  "A Sense of Wonder: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan on Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey!". Interview with bloggers and journalists, eclipsemagazine.com. June 08, 2014.

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• The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving heart, her beautiful voice, her activism, her writings, her news reporting, her other works, her magic, her bright spirit.

  Selena Fox

  Beautiful, Writing, Heart

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• Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mirrors, Broken, Rainbow

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.28, Random House

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• I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

  Jolene Blalock

  Moving, Men, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Philosophy, Book, Islamic

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• I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

  Jolene Blalock

  Moving, Men, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

  Stevie Wonder

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mind, Brilliant, Castro

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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