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Brokaw Quotes By Tom Brokaw

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

Brokaw Quotes By Tom Brokaw

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture. — Tom Brokaw

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Came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over — Tom Brokaw

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In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others. — Tom Brokaw

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Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever. — Tom Brokaw

Brokaw Quotes By Tom Brokaw

Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes. — Tom Brokaw

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I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment. — Tom Brokaw

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Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order. — Tom Brokaw

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Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style. — Tom Brokaw

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Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias. — Tom Brokaw

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I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government ... completes its investigation.' — Tom Brokaw

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Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season. — Tom Brokaw

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I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South. — Tom Brokaw

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There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels
all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25] — Tom Brokaw

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We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color. — Tom Brokaw

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Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way. — Tom Brokaw

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It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers ... — Tom Brokaw

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Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you - unless you die first of something else. — Tom Brokaw

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What was that World War I saying, "Trust the Lord and pass the ammo"? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone. — Tom Brokaw

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I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there. — Tom Brokaw

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The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. — Tom Brokaw

Brokaw Quotes By Tom Brokaw

When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials. — Tom Brokaw

Brokaw Quotes By Adam McKay

Tom Brokaw was never young. — Adam McKay

Brokaw Quotes By Khalid Yasin

Let's not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let's not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let's not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let's not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her. — Khalid Yasin

Brokaw Quotes By Tom Brokaw

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor. — Tom Brokaw

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ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports. — Tom Brokaw

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Despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played out one day — Tom Brokaw

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Established a thriving medical practice and was a fixture at our high school sports games. He never spoke to any of us of the horrors he had seen. When one of his sons wore as a casual jacket one of Doc Auld's Army coats with the major's insignia still attached, I remember thinking, — Tom Brokaw

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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. — Tom Brokaw

Brokaw Quotes By Lester Holt

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you. — Lester Holt

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Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck. — Tom Brokaw

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I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me. — Tom Brokaw

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There is no delete button for bigotry. — Tom Brokaw

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Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high. — Tom Brokaw

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When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise. — Tom Brokaw

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I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away. — Tom Brokaw

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I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write. — Tom Brokaw

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I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height. — Tom Brokaw

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I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out. — Tom Brokaw

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Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. — Tom Brokaw

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My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate. — Tom Brokaw

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While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades ... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. — Tom Brokaw

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I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories. — Tom Brokaw

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The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. — Tom Brokaw

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The D-Day fortieth-anniversary project awakened my earliest memories. Between the ages of three and five I lived on an Army base in western South Dakota and spent a good deal of my time outdoors in a tiny helmet, shooting stick guns at imaginary German and Japanese soldiers. My father, Red Brokaw, then in his early thirties, was an all-purpose Mr. Fix-It and operator of snow-plows and — Tom Brokaw

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I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life. — Tom Brokaw

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I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today. — Tom Brokaw

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If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. — Tom Brokaw

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We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood. — Tom Brokaw

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I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. — Tom Brokaw

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The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. — Tom Brokaw

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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side. — Tom Brokaw

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Is that cancer curable or just treatable. — Tom Brokaw

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The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. — Tom Brokaw

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You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona. — Tom Brokaw

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As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness. — Tom Brokaw

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You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button. — Tom Brokaw

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Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw

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The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other. — Tom Brokaw

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It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough. — Tom Brokaw

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It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong. — Tom Brokaw

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His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity. — Tom Brokaw

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The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up. — Tom Brokaw

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I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way. — Tom Brokaw

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I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends. — Tom Brokaw

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What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty. — Tom Brokaw

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I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point. — Tom Brokaw

Brokaw Quotes By Conan O'Brien

There's a rumor that NBC is going to have Tom Brokaw fill in temporarily as the NBC News anchor. When asked why, a network spokesperson said, 'Because the only other NBC person we have is Bill Cosby.' — Conan O'Brien

Brokaw Quotes By Jane Pauley

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way. — Jane Pauley

Brokaw Quotes By Tom Brokaw

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it. — Tom Brokaw

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People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. — Tom Brokaw

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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. — Tom Brokaw

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The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved. — Tom Brokaw

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One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country. — Tom Brokaw

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Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come. — Tom Brokaw

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We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation. — Tom Brokaw

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It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. — Tom Brokaw

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In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war. — Tom Brokaw

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Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities. — Tom Brokaw

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When the war ended, more than twelve million men and women put their uniforms aside and returned to civilian life. They went back to work at their old jobs or started small businesses; they became big-city cops and firemen; they finished their degrees or enrolled in college for the first time; they became schoolteachers, — Tom Brokaw

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I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong. — Tom Brokaw

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Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names. — Tom Brokaw

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When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. — Tom Brokaw

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What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. — Tom Brokaw

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David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. — Tom Brokaw

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Sacrifices. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. They stayed true to their values of personal responsibility, duty, honor, and faith. — Tom Brokaw

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You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love. — Tom Brokaw

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During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe. — Tom Brokaw

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I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I've enjoyed living almost everywhere I've ever been. I just find that it's a different menu wherever you go. — Tom Brokaw

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In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube. — Tom Brokaw

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I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles? — Tom Brokaw

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I remain the luckiest guy I know. — Tom Brokaw

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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. — Tom Brokaw

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I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions. — Tom Brokaw

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In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first. — Tom Brokaw

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Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war. — Tom Brokaw

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I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.' — Tom Brokaw

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I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.' — Tom Brokaw

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I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup. — Tom Brokaw

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The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse
it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option — Tom Brokaw