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Tom Brokaw Quotes

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.

Tom Brokaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1940

Topics

Great Depression Darkness War Year

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

Jessica Simpson

Perfect Okay Hard Finally Come Been

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Jenny Agutter

Hope Waiting Energy Someone You Go

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

Maurice Sendak

Children I Am Survive Question Only

I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.

Matthew Weiner

Name You Television Want Never Get

Player safety has been an essential focus for us for a number of years.

Jeff Fisher

Focus Safety Years Us Been Player

When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.

Steve Largent

Life Change Football Think You Play

It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.

Michael Tubbs

Community School College Important

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

World Thinking Afghanistan Destroyed

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

Loretta Swit

Me World Feel You Acting Stop

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Dean Rusk

Congress Give Machine State He

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

Debbie Reynolds

Men Think Hell You Now I Was Raised

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Bob Riley

Love God Ethics Care Take Care Help