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"I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know."

"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty."

"To position yourself as an expert, create content, write a book, build a blog, post on social media, and write articles for professional publications and news sites to build your intellectual portfolio of expertise. Repurpose content in a variety of ways."

"You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence."

"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert."

"Your calling is you unique area of expertise."
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"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."


"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."


"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."


"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."


"As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life."


"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."


"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that."


"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."


"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
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