Tom Brokaw Quotes

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

Tom Brokaw

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FamilyCulturePlayUpLikeMacho

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Alva Myrdal

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We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

Sue Johanson

ThinkKnowWantTeachNeverTell

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

Tony McCoy

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There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

Romola Garai

SchoolMeSmallEnvironmentBath

We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.

Matt Apuzzo

WhereAlmostOversightProgram

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

GreatPoetryAmericanFictionFrost

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Josh Billings

AdviceEnoughEasyOilTakeGive

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Chick Corea

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

UniverseTheologyDictatedSigned

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

AdventureWarLikeDiseaseTyphus

I hate the polo collar.

Sean Faris

HatePoloCollar

Fortunately, I can play a lot of golf with my job.

Scott Harvey

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