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"If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful."

"Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues."

"The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'."

"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."

"No man bosses me around, and no man ever will."

"Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides."

"Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence."
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"And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth."

"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge."

"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."

"They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home."

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

"If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home."
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