Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

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• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fire

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • May
  • Strong

• I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Think
  • Short
  • Personal

• I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Government
  • Market
  • Regulation

• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  

  Quintilian
  • Genius
  • Maturity
  • Ever

• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Will

• My mother never really thought I could become anything.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Thought
  • Become

• The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Words
  • Fear

• When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Work
  • Character
  • Nice

• If you're stuck in traffic, call a friend or listen to a favorite podcast. If you're waiting in a long line, make friends with a person in line with you. There are lots of ways we can change the vibe.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Friend

• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Great
  • Food

• 'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda