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" I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time. "
Tom Brokaw
Say
Still
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" I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life. "
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" 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. "
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" If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. "
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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'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. "
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" It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. "
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" I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life. "
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" I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes. "
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" Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people. "
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" The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other. "
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" 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. "
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" While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. "
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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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" I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out. "
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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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" The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. "
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