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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Janet Flanner

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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Vladimir Nabokov

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No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

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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

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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Maurice Baring

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I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

Joan Blondell

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I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

Philip Guston

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Andre Malraux

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Ann Landers

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You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Margaret Heffernan

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My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

Ivanka Trump

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I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

James Woods

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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

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I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

Wolfgang Schauble

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The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Tony Robbins

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I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

Frank Murphy

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