Quotes by Tom Brokaw - Page 4

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Government
Differences
Personality
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The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
America
Cities
Epic
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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.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Died
Found
Host
Multiple
Not Knowing
President
Today
Vice President
Abc
Show
Run
Woman
Later
Talked
Toward
Vice
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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.'
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Decision
Federal Government
Investigation
State Government
Traffic
Attaching
Bridge
Constantly
Convicted
Federal
Governor
Wait
Iota
Msnbc
Stall
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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 / Journalist
Civility
Class
Country
Critical
Critical Mass
Dialogue
Differences
Importance
Left
Mass
Political
Spectrum
Strong
Begin
Across
Hope Me Country
Does
Believes
Call
Right
Professional
Seem
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My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Car
Ammunition
Army
Backseat
Brother
Dakota
Landscape
Mother
Mother And Father
Newborn
South
Three
Family Mother Me
Constructed
Decade
Far
Ford
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It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Technology
Acceptance
Heart
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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.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Ancient
Be Grateful
Framed
Grateful
Unbroken
Dam
Lake
Natural Beauty
Plains
River
Sweep
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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 / Journalist
California
Commentary
Consciousness
Debate
Dialogue
Late
Light
Rising
Seventies
Early
Females
Raise
Sixties
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The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Courage
Borders
Civil Rights
Dark
Folks
Interviews
Memorable
Names
Rights
Somalia
Doctor
Civil
Leaders
Linger
Operating
Town
Showing
Tent
Walked
Whose
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The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Ambition
Children
Fall
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Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Art
War
Country
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There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Airplane
Heart
Military
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I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
New York
Morning
Believe
Mistake
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