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 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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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it’s too expensive to be worth saving.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.
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Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.
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I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
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The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
