Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that weird. It is very weird, but compared to that stuff, it's not that different.
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It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.
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Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
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I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.'
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If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.
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I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.
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I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
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Why do so many things end in fire?
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If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
