Genius Quotes - Page 36

• Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cities, Ideas, Watches

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Personality, Giants

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing ‘Hitchcock’ and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of ‘Noah’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Doe

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Emulate

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• The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Book, Kids

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

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Principles, Shelter

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.6, Best Books on

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• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  Samuel Johnson

  Confidence, Pace, Talent

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.32

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• I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Rocks, Fans

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• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Fans, Bigs

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

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• I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Self, Order, Way

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.48

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

  Artie Lange

  Dark, Artist, Wish

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

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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.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Stupid, Hero

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• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Fate, Great Mother

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

  Hugh Leonard

  Sarcastic, Country, Ireland And The Irish

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• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humility, Pride

  "On the 8th Day - God Laughed". Book by Gene Perret, p. 95, 1995.

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• It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crafts

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.

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• Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Ideas, Want Something

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• Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

  Dave Lombardo

  Hardest, Mike

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• The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

  John Lydon

  Wall, Leader, Political

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

  James Madison

  Order, Mind, Female

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.232

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• Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

  Andre Malraux

  Doe, World

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• I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Fire, Mind

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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