Tom Brokaw Quotes

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.

Tom Brokaw

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FamilyI AmMeWorldProfessional

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Jim Dale

CommitmentTheatreCareerMuch

There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.

Jenny Mollen

WorkFatherChildDoctorEnoughYou

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

Ann Patchett

DogTimePeopleMeBabyBad

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

Amitava Kumar

TeaSmallFishRoyaltyLuxuryYou

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.

Ronnie Corbett

LoveGoodDoneYearsRadioWorkers

Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Ruth Glick

LifeRomanticNobodyFiction

I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.

Jason Mraz

KindT-ShirtAlwaysJeansGuyBeen

We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them.

Dianne Feinstein

PastNot PerfectPerfectDarkFix

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy.

Debbie Stabenow

EnergyStrategyCreateNewWill

The less the ISIS 'caliphate' exists as a physical entity, the less the group can claim it is the 'Islamic State' that it purports to be.

Peter Bergen

GroupClaimStatePhysicalLess

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Seamus Heaney

PoetryBreadDeadBreak

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.

Rza

PeopleYouSome PeopleForeverSome

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