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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."

"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."

"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful."

"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."

"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."

"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader."

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
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