Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1980

Topics

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I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Jodie Foster

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It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

Andy Biersack

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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

John Lennon

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Jean de La Fontaine

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I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

Michael Ealy

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Negotiating isn't about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It's not an 'either/or situation.' It's about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I've had to learn this hard lesson.

John Rampton

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To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Simon Sinek

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Just because I have signed a contract doesn't mean that he or she has bought me from head to toe.

Shilpa Shinde

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Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Robert Anton Wilson

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Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the rows of ribbons, there was a much more ambiguous figure.

Michael Korda

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An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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