#genius

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#demented #fire #genius #i #maybe

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#become #escape #expecting #factory #factory worker

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#cooks #genius #grew #heavier #husband

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#ahead #andy #andy warhol #believe #culture

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused. ↗

— Ted McGinley

#especially #genius #hollywood #i #overused

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#been #chief #chief danger #contained #courage

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. ↗

— An Wang

#common sense #consistent #function #genius #more

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#genius #industry #life #like

It is always well to get near to men of genius. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#genius #get #men #near #well