Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I try to work out five days a week. It's a lot, but I feel great when I do it.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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Before the quantum theory appeared, the principle of the uniformity of nature - that like causes produce like effects - had been accepted as a universal and indisputable fact of science. As soon as the atomicity of radiation became established, this principle had to be discarded.
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I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
