Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.
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That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
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Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’
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I only know how to write musicals.
