“One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.”
Genius quotes
64 genius quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“I am interested in failures — the homosexual genius, the suicidal genius, the fantasist genius, all these people are heroes to me.”
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“She's not normal, but if Einstein can ride a bike so can she.”
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“That obstinate, suspicious, egocentric, maddening and lovable genius of a problem child.”
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“- Mitch Weaver: Revenge! I'm telling you, we should open a revenge-for-hire business.
- Sam McKenna: I never heard of a revenge-for-hire business.
- Mitch Weaver: Exactly, we'd be the first! With every genius business idea, there's gotta be a first. Like, like the guy who first thought of delivering pizza to people's houses. Or, uh, the guy who...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“It's psychotic! People keep coming up with new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional...”
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“- Will Hunting: I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals, and a box of wood. Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play. I couldn't paint you a picture, I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway, and I can't play the piano.
- Skylar: But you can do my o-chem paper in under an hour.
- Will Hunting: Right. Well, I mean...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.”
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“- Sid: Maybe we could rapidly evolve into water creatures.
- Diego: That's genius, Sid.
- Sid: Call me Squid.” -
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“Not Mozart. Not Picasso. Not a genius who will enrich the world. But a lonely little boy with a domineering father, a customs officer who was 52 when he was born. And an affectionate doting mother who was 29. The father died when he was 65 when the boy was nearly 14... Adolf Hitler.”
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“- Lewis Nixon: Sobel's a genius. I had a headmaster in prep school who was just like him. I know the type.
- Richard D. Winters: Lew, Michaelangelo's a genius. Beethoven's a genius.
- Lewis Nixon: You know a man in this company who wouldn't double-time Currahee with a full pack, just to piss in that man's morning coffee?”
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“We offer humanity's greatest minds more time to fulfill their potential. Designed to offer you the very best of the human experience.”
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“- Sheldon Flender: I have never had a play produced. That's right. And I've written one play a year for the past twenty years.
- David Shayne: Yes, but that's because you're a genius. And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. Means you're a genius.”
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“Kurt's brain was just constantly going.”
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“Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses is it not?”
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“I can't work for a living. My genius will be wasted trying to make ends meet. This is how great men topple.”
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“- Garry Lejeune: Lloyd, let me just say one thing, since we've stopped. I've worked with a lotta directors, Lloyd. Some of them were geniuses, some of them were bastards. But I've never met one who was so totally and absolutely... I don't know.
- Lloyd Fellowes: Thank you Gary, I'm very touched. Now will you get off the fucking stage?”
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“This is the stuff that my mom would tell friends about me, 'My son is genius, my son is a genius'.”
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“I wonder if geniuses have problems with their sex lives.”
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