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Tom Brokaw
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 6
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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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Votes are something that you earn.
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It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.
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Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.
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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.
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Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.
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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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People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.
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Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.
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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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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
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A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility
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If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
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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.
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It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.
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In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
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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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