Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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I don't really yell at people.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.
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I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.
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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
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Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
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What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
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The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
