Tom Brokaw Quotes
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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
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Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.
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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.
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Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
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What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
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The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.
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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]
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There is no delete button for bigotry.
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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.
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There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
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It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
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I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.
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What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
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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.
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Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.
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I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.
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Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
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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.
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Votes are something that you earn.
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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
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I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
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It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.
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It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
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Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
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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.
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