Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Way
  • Reasons
  • Go

• Change is no threat to culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Threat

• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Women
  • Done

• The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Faith

• That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Spider-Man

• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Truth
  • End
  • Tell

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Need
  • Industry
  • Build

• I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Doing
  • Actor
  • Living

• I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.

  

  Young Thug
  • People
  • Nice
  • Gay

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Love
  • Rapper

• I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Way
  • Weird
  • Books

• The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Family
  • May
  • Business

• They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • High
  • Me

• The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Character
  • Future

• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Children
  • Done
  • Society

• I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Men
  • Girl

• We just believed in each other, got defensive stops when we needed them and executed our offense. We were able to make something happen.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believed
  • Offense
  • Stops

• We in the NFL unquestionably are in sports and competition, but we're also in entertainment, and that's the entertainment capital of the world. It just bowls you over when you see the opportunity in L.A.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Sports

• Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda