#brilliant

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#ancient #brilliant #condemned #dictum #errors

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#continually #disguised #faced #great #insoluble

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#film #i #i can #i think #just

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#harlem #indian #michael #plays #prophet

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#about #brilliant #build #draw #gift

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#bit #brilliant #fact #get #i

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#brilliant #eddie #him #i #love

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#brilliant #close #close attention #goes #i

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. ↗

— Bill Gates

#brilliant #come #i #ideas #image

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances