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• Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Creative, Genius

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• As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Country, Art

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• Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

  James A. Michener

  Creativity, Science, Creative

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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• The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Jobs, Years

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• Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

  Heather Anne Campbell

  Kings, Book, Dust

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• I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

  Lawrence Welk

  Creative, Genius, Innovators

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

  Tim Cook

  Apples, Creative, Visionaries

  Tributes to Steve Jobs, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

  Cornel West

  Creativity, Creative, Priorities

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• Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Struggle, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.133, Beacon Press

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• I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

  Eric Weiner

  Believe, Creative, Who We Are

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and he's still doing things. Larry David is also amazing. He is honest and blunt. A creative genius.

  J. B. Smoove

  Moving, Successful, Creative

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• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Creative, Misunderstood

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Reflection, Data

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?

  Carlos Santana

  Mean, Angel, Thinking

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• One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe of creative genius. Like Ellison's work, Rampersad's text wrestles eloquently with difficult truths about race, politics, and American life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Race, Creative, Orbit

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