Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Energy
  • Choose

• The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • She
  • Girl
  • Queen

• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Water
  • Building
  • Development

• My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Soul
  • Best
  • Her

• I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Me
  • Write
  • See

• As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Thinking
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  • Me

• Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Lies
  • Glory

• Science grows like a weed every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • Like
  • Year

• The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Key

• The world is a penal institution.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Institution

• Both Shah Rukh and Aamir have taught me a lot. I used to be their fan. I had seen all their movies. Once I had even taken Aamir's autograph! Then all of a sudden, I was facing the camera with him! The way these two looked after me and saw me through my initial scenes is something I can never forget.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Taken

• In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Hope
  • Happen
  • Prevail

• The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Purpose

• In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Words

• The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda