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" I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height. "
Tom Brokaw
Cost
Two
Spine
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" I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles? "
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Think
Back
Child
" 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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Kind
Events
End Of The Day
" I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time. "
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Still
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" The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. "
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Never
Think
" Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. "
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Now
Percent
American
" 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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Children
Now
Limits
" 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. "
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World
Person
Citizen
" I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong. "
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Say
Wrong
Washington
" Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor. "
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Hospital
Culture
Doctor
" The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. "
Tom Brokaw
Generation
Great
Clothing
" 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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Dog
President
Way
" When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. "
Tom Brokaw
Read
Towns
Struck
" My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right. "
Tom Brokaw
Strong
Civility
Hope
" What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. "
Tom Brokaw
Job
Think
Done
" Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order. "
Tom Brokaw
Watergate
Crisis
Constitutional
" Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style. "
Tom Brokaw
Three
Style
Prince
" 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
" My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing. "
Tom Brokaw
Doing
Style
Transition
" My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator. "
Tom Brokaw
Mother
Father
Day
" The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up. "
Tom Brokaw
Religion
Doctor
Enjoy
" We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State. "
Tom Brokaw
Three
World
Nation
" 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. "
Tom Brokaw
World
Losing
Standing
" I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment. "
Tom Brokaw
Mindset
Personality
Parents
" 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
" It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. "
Tom Brokaw
Make A Difference
Easy
Lot
" Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. "
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Network
News
Still
" In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private. "
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Ford
Public
Private
" You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona. "
Tom Brokaw
Content
You
Just
" The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing. "
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Mother
Wife
Task
" 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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Think
Political
News