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Robert Caro
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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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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Beauty
"When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"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."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Famous
"Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Trust
"I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
History
"There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And it’s never come back. It’s a trend that, if you’re liberal, is really discouraging."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Government
"In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"You know, we’re taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected."
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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Power
"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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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Music
"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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Robert Caro
Topic(s):
Experience
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