#mediocrity

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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.


Margot Fonteyn


#any #art #artists #find #great

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.


George Will


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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.


Rutherford B. Hayes


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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.


Victor Hugo


#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.


Roberto Benigni


#gratitude #mediocrity #moderation #sign #you

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.


David Bowie


#interesting #mediocrity #men #take #them

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.


Jean de la Bruyere


#certain things #endured #mediocrity #music #painting

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.


Kim Cattrall


#absolute #better #different #film #genius

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.


Benjamin Disraeli


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