- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Muslim American activist, I've been targeted by the right wing in a way that is very dangerous.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a couple of odd experiences - unexplainable anxiety that came my way through a belief in something... I mean, it sounds cryptic, but... anything for me that turns myself against myself, I stay away from.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
- Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020