"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."

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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

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"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."

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"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."

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"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."

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"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."

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

Music, Dance, Ballet

"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."

Experience, Pretty

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"The world system is employment."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."

"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."

"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."

"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."

"Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery."

"I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet."

"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."

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

"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."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

"The world system is employment."

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

"Do not be weary to make money."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"