Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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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.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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.
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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.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
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I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
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Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!
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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.
