Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
Yaya Toure -
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
I've directed independent film.
Vin Diesel -
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove -
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand -
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn -
Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
Irrfan Khan -
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie -
Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
Jack Canfield -
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth -
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Irvine Welsh
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
Larry Norman -
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
Paige VanZant -
I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
Ira Glass -
Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
Iman
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I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
Jennifer Connelly -
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
Alan Rickman -
To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
Margaret Carlson -
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
Lin-Manuel Miranda