Quotes with genius

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  • William Gilmore Simms He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Ben Horowitz Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Camilla Belle Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Oscar Wilde I have nothing to declare except my genius.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adam Savage I wouldn't say Jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Beck I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Leo Burnett I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Alan Cohen If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson 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
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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