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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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• How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.

  Henry Winkler

  "The One Thing Henry Winkler Wished He Knew as a Caregiver". Interview with Katie Neal, spryliving.com. June 13, 2013.

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• You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

  Emily Mortimer

  Fire, Lines

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• Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Passion, Biblical

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• The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women

  Barack Obama

  Path, Surround Yourself, Path To Success

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Zebras, Sunset

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• Everyone we regard as brilliant has endured an enormous amount of failure.

  Frans Johansson

  Enormous, Regard, Amount

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• When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord (as Scripture says), gaining fulfillment in the purest contemplations of His visible theophany which will illuminate us with its most brilliant rays, just as it illuminated the disciples at the time of the most divine Transfiguration.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Light

  "The Triads".

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• No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as we are known' (I Cor 13:12). But for the present what reaches us is a scant emanation, as it were a small beam from a great light - which means that any one who 'knew' God or whose 'knowledge' of Him has been attested to in the Bible, has a manifestly more brilliant knowledge than others not equally illuminated. This superiority was reckoned knowledge in the full sense, not because it really was so, but by the contrast of relative strengths.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mean, Light

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• Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture, where the mysteries of God's Word lie simple, absolute and unchangeable in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence. Amid the deepest shadow they pour overwhelming light on what is most manifest. Amid the wholly unsensed and unseen they completely fill our sightless minds with treasures beyond all beauty.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Simple

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• Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

  Sarah Silverman

  Artist, Smell, Cold

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• If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Smart, Stories

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

  Barack Obama

  Light, Fierce, Phenomenal Woman

  "Maya Angelou dies at age 86: See poet talk life lessons, 'greatest gift' on TODAY" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. May 28, 2014.

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• You're beautiful like a flower
  More valuable than a diamond
  You are powerful like a fire...
  There is nothing in the world that you cannot do
  When you believe in you, who are beautiful
  Yeah you, who are brilliant
  Yeah you, who are powerful
  Yeah you, who are resilient

  India.Arie

  Beautiful, Powerful, Believe

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• The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Revenge, Color, Wish

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• Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Intelligent, Shining

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• When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I’m grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.

  Edward Snowden

  Grateful, Awards, People

  "Edward Snowden Congratulates Laura Poitras For Winning Best Documentary Oscar For Citizenfour". www.aclu.org. February 22, 2015.

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• Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

  William J. Bernstein

  Investment Success, Investment

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• Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my very first panto with my Primary School. I think just going there and experience that for the first time, being so young, it's something that's actually stuck with me right up until now. And to think back and to sort of remember that magic and that first little hint of it was brilliant.

  Colin Morgan

  Memories, School, Thinking

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

  Joe Zee

  Creative, Soul, Genius

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• There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.

  Nancy Eimers

  Children, Husband, Wife

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• Perez Hilton is brilliant to me. Because he’s taken something that people don’t think is valid, don’t think is important, and he’s made them obsessed with it. People are obsessed with him. They’re obsessed with his site, they’re obsessed with what he does. They love him. They all love him. They love you, they hate you, what you don’t want is indifference. The day that I put a record out that nobody says a damn thing about, that’s bad.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Love You, Taken

  "Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame". Book by Emily Herbert, 2010.

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• First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed my daughter as he has charmed me. I think my kid charmed him, too. This is a fellow I could joyfully spend the rest of my career working with. He's that good and that generous.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

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