Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

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• The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Weird
  • Someone

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Church
  • Bible

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • House
  • Process
  • Navy

• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • World
  • Music
  • Community

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Years

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Nature

• I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • English
  • Journey
  • Speak

• If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • She
  • Exist
  • Moss

• Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • About
  • Application

• Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

  

  Cyril Cusack
  • World

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

  

  Bill Maher
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Road
  • Order
  • Out

• I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • God