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" If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. "
Tom Brokaw
Religion
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" Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it. "
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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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" In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. "
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" My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate. "
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" I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.' "
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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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" In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private. "
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Private
" Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever. "
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Forever
" 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 don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture. "
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Up
" 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
" The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. "
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Keep
Go
" I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. "
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American
World
Journalism
" 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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" Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high. "
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Real
Real Life
Here
" 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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Husband
Real
Day
" 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. "
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You
Just
" People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. "
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Beginning
Doubt
Right
" 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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Family
God
Help
" Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters. "
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" 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. "
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" Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. "
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" 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. "
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" It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. "
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Believe
Generation
" Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order. "
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" I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Personality
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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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