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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Randy Newman
Tags: Like Than Even
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.


Clive Bell
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper
Tags: You Which Only
Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
Mike McCaul
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
Christina Aguilera
Tags: Work You Who
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.


Alexander Pope
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
Ted Dekker
Tags: You Really Know
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I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.


Christina Milian
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I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
Matt Reeves
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
Cliff Martinez
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?


Ben Carson
Tags: God You Who
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.
Sarah Sutton
Tags: You Who More
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.


J. K. Rowling
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Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.


Richard C. Armitage
Tags: You Because Know
I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
Kit Harington