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“You have to be odd to be number one”
― Dr. Seuss

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Humor is reason gone mad.”
― Groucho Marx

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
― Groucho Marx

“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”
― Andrew Smith

“[BURR]
I am the one thing in life I can control.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“[HAMILTON}
There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait.
Just you wait.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Why do you write like you're running out of time?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“[ELIZA]
You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable; I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still: I am lying in wait.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you”
― Lin-manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Dying is easy young man. Living Is harder”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“{BURR}
Life doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes. And we keep living anyway. We rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes and if there's a reason I'm still alive when so many have died then I'm willing to--

wait for it.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry.
And I am not throwing away my shot.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“I may not live to see our glory
But I will gladly join the fight
And when our children tell our story
They'll tell the story of tonight”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“BURR: Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of 25 essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote 85 essays, in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing 5. James Madison wrote 29. Hamilton wrote the other 51.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution