Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Whenever I see your smiling faceI have to smile myself.Because I love you (Yes, I do).And when you give me that pretty little pout,It turns me inside out.There's something about you, baby (I don't know).
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Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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My son is my routine and priority, period!
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Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.
