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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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Mistake
Own
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" Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him. "
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" When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. "
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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. "
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" If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" 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?' "
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" After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries. "
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" The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. "
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" One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children. "
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" The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it. "
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" TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. "
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" 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. "
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" The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s. "
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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.' "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. "
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" The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. "
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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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" 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! "
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" I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height. "
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" In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise. "
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" What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. "
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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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" Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage. "
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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. "
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