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"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."
"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness"
"Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint."
"Talent should minister to genius."
"f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed"
"I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt."
"Boldness in itself is genius."
"I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it."
"There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant."
"A person of genius should marry a person of character."
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."
"The iPod is genius. I have 300."
"Genius lasts longer than beauty"
"I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life."
"Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries."
"Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own."
"To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you."
"This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain."
"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."
