Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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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.
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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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.
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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.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
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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.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
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When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.
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We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is.
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Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
