Tom Brokaw Quotes

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

  Tom Brokaw

  Passion, Relationships With Others, Pursuit

  Emory University Commencement Address, delivered 16 May 2005

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• Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

  Tom Brokaw

  Life, Hero, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

  Tom Brokaw

  Morning, Luck, Bigs

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

  Tom Brokaw

  Risk, Unconventional, Chance

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• Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

  Tom Brokaw

  Eye, Facts, Beholder

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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

  Heart, Acceptance, Technology

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• A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

  Tom Brokaw

  War, Responsibility, Generations

  Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers.

  Tom Brokaw

  Answers, Trouble

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2004.

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• No text message will ever replace the first kiss.

  Tom Brokaw

  Kissing, First Kiss, Messages

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• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Motivational, Graduation, Education

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• I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

  Tom Brokaw

  Thinking, Views, People

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• It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

  Tom Brokaw

  Fake People, Journalism, Storytelling

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• It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

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  Heart, Technology, Soul

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• The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option

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  Country, Commitment, Divorce

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• It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.

  Tom Brokaw

  Easier

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• Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.

  Tom Brokaw

  Life, Different, Filled

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• Votes are something that you earn.

  Tom Brokaw

  Vote

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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

  Morning, New York, Mistake

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

  Tom Brokaw

  Beach, Greatness, People

  Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• There is no delete button for bigotry.

  Tom Brokaw

  Funny Graduation, Buttons, Delete Button

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• If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

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  Fishing, Church, Ifs

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• It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

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  Soul, Wire, World

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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

  Country, Art, War

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• Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

  Tom Brokaw

  Buddhist, Needs, Earth

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