“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.”
As quoted by Martha Graham, in Dance Observer, Volumes 24-27 (1957), p. 5
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“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes.”
As quoted in New Musical Express (1991-11-23).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“Greatness is the reward for genius…only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.”
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Dark Rooms (2002)
“I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details.
~Mayuri Kurotsuchi”
“There's a sucker born every minute.”
Commonly attributed to Barnum, there is much testimony of contemporaries that he never actually said this, and in "P. T. Barnum Never Did Say "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html R. J. Brown asserts that it actually originated with a banker named David Hannum, in reference to one of Barnum's hoaxes: a replica of the Cardiff Giant.
Misattributed
Time, The Answers Issue (July 2015), p. 49.
Response to Walter Mason Camp when asked how long the fighting took on Custer Hill, in [Fox, Richard A., Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined, February 16, 2015, University of Oklahoma Press, 9780806129983, 195, https://books.google.com/books?id=5tazBgAAQBAJ, 1 March 2018]
