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Tom Brokaw
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 6
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South Dakota
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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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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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It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
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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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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
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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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If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
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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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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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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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It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.
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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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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
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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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It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
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I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.
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No text message will ever replace the first kiss.
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Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.
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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
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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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