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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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.
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The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
