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" 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. "
Tom Brokaw
World
Person
Citizen
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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. "
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Friends
Family
" 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
Help
Women
Society
" 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
Racial
Justice
Race
" While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful. "
Tom Brokaw
Grateful
Beauty
Me
" I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang! "
Tom Brokaw
Painful
Surprise
Me
" In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers. "
Tom Brokaw
More
Than
Share
" 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
People
Family
Friends
" I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case. "
Tom Brokaw
Your
Phone
Proactive
" 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
White
Say
Sorry
" 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
History
Education
Political
" Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style. "
Tom Brokaw
Three
Style
Prince
" 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
Family
God
Help
" Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. "
Tom Brokaw
Network
News
Still
" Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?' "
Tom Brokaw
People
Political
Together
" What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. "
Tom Brokaw
Kind
Events
End Of The Day
" In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it. "
Tom Brokaw
Young
Relationship
Others
" One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends. "
Tom Brokaw
People
Friends
You
" When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was? "
Tom Brokaw
Fate
Perfect
Not Perfect
" 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
Stars
Famous
Marriage
" Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him. "
Tom Brokaw
Good
Man
Friend
" 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
Family
Professional
Me
" 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. "
Tom Brokaw
Journalism
People
Top
" John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment. "
Tom Brokaw
Man
Rest
Political
" In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less. "
Tom Brokaw
Week
Job
Television
" Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage. "
Tom Brokaw
Him
Old
Guy
" 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
Like
Culture
Up
" We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color. "
Tom Brokaw
Fulfill
Never
Promise
" I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup. "
Tom Brokaw
Home
Sit
Old
" You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. "
Tom Brokaw
Search
Universe
You
" 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
See
Stars
Me