Brilliant quotes
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I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
-- Aaron Levie -
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
-- Alan Moore -
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
-- Alan Rickman -
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
-- Alexander Smith -
Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.
-- Alexandra Roach -
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
-- Alice Walker -
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
-- Andre Maurois -
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Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!
-- Andy Weir -
I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
-- Ann Patchett -
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.
-- Anna Neagle -
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Anyone who can say and do anything better than that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in his head.
-- Anuj -
I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
-- Avicenna -
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
-- Barack Obama -
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
-- Bear Grylls -
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
-- Ben Stein -
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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
-- Bill Gross -
I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.
-- Blind Willie McTell -
Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant
-- Brian De Palma -
Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
-- Bruce Vilanch -
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Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
-- Camille Paglia -
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
-- Carson McCullers -
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In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.
-- Charles Gounod -
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
-- Charles Stross -
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I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.
-- Charlize Theron -
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.
-- Claire Danes -
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
-- Clarence Budington Kelland -
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Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
-- Coco Chanel -
William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; thats the only way I can make it believable for the audience.
-- Condola Rashad -
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
-- Dave Kellett -
The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.
-- David Gelernter -
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He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
-- David Lloyd George -
I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.
-- David Shuster -
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
-- David Stockman -
The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.
-- David Wright -
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The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
-- Derek Sivers -
What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
-- Desmond Llewelyn -
Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.
-- Don Dodge -
I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.
-- Dorothy Malone -
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You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.
-- Emily Mortimer -
I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
-- Eric Balfour -
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
-- Eric Maisel -
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
-- Erich Segal -
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The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
-- Faith Hill -
Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.
-- Francoise Giroud -
Everyone we regard as brilliant has endured an enormous amount of failure.
-- Frans Johansson -
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Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life
-- Garrison Wynn -
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
-- Garry Kasparov -
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
-- Gavin de Becker -
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
-- George Kennedy -
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We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
-- Gerard Arpey -
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.
-- Greg Gilbert -
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
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Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.
-- Guy Consolmagno -
I think America has a brilliant future.
-- Harold Evans -
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
-- Harry Lloyd -
I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.
-- Helena Christensen -
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There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.
-- Henry Winkler -
How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.
-- Henry Winkler -
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
-- Hermann Weyl -
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I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
-- Ian McDiarmid -
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
-- Immanuel Kant -
I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
-- Ioan Gruffudd -
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
-- Ion Tiriac -
Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
-- Jacki Weaver -
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.
-- James Gould Cozzens -
One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
-- James Gunn -
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I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
-- Jared Harris -
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
-- Jenny Saville -
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I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.
-- Jeremy Bulloch -
Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.
-- Jerry Stiller -
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
-- Joel Siegel -
John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.
-- John Badham -
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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
-- John Henrik Clarke -
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
-- John Poindexter -
It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
-- Jonny Greenwood -
Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.
-- Jorie Graham -
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I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.
-- Jude Law -
I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.
-- Julie Benz -
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.
-- Julie London -
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
-- June Jordan -
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Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.
-- Juno Temple -
I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
-- Kate Moss -
Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.
-- Katee Sackhoff -
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?
-- Kathy Reichs -
