"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

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Fulton J. Sheen

#Jealousy Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
“A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.”
“Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.”
“An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.”
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

Source : "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889
“I can talk to you all day. I just might not say anything though.”
“The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.”
“We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.”

Source : "Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.

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