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  • Britt Ekland Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • André Malraux Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • George-Louis de Buffon Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Robert Graves Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Benjamin Peirce Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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  • Alice Duer Miller Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Ben Shapiro Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Shakespeare Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Les Brown Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Sophia Loren Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Mertz Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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  • R.D. Clyde Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
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  • Bill Buford Giada De Laurentiis, of 'Everyday Italian,' is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise - she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Butch Trucks Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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