Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.
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If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.
