It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TOM BROKAW My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things...
TOM BROKAW We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
TOM BROKAW It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TOM BROKAW TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
TOM BROKAW If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
TOM BROKAW You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the goo...
TOM BROKAW I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experie...
TOM BROKAW In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel ...
TOM BROKAW 1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.
TOM BROKAW Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
TOM BROKAW We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11...
TOM BROKAW We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial...
TOM BROKAW In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary...
TOM BROKAW You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to descr...
TOM BROKAW In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown...
TOM BROKAW Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout the...
TOM BROKAW Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
TOM BROKAW In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers.
TOM BROKAW Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.
TOM BROKAW The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights lead...
TOM BROKAW Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
TOM BROKAW I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
TOM BROKAW It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
TOM BROKAW You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.
TOM BROKAW I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of...
TOM BROKAW The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the mo...
TOM BROKAW My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. ...
TOM BROKAW I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.
TOM BROKAW While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient...
TOM BROKAW During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps...
TOM BROKAW Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and ...
TOM BROKAW It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
TOM BROKAW The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jo...
TOM BROKAW I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get ...
TOM BROKAW Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to...
TOM BROKAW People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.
TOM BROKAW I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appe...
TOM BROKAW When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about a...
TOM BROKAW I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governo...
TOM BROKAW We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a do...
TOM BROKAW I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts e...
TOM BROKAW I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captain...
TOM BROKAW My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that wou...
TOM BROKAW Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridir...
TOM BROKAW The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential exam...
TOM BROKAW In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so ...
TOM BROKAW What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political...
TOM BROKAW I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the ...
TOM BROKAW The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at K...
TOM BROKAW I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
TOM BROKAW The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is som...
TOM BROKAW I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me th...
TOM BROKAW The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation ...
TOM BROKAW In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocen...
TOM BROKAW The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was...
TOM BROKAW Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she ...
TOM BROKAW There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can g...
TOM BROKAW ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought t...
TOM BROKAW Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style,
TOM BROKAW We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to refle...
TOM BROKAW It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
TOM BROKAW More and more of the veterans are in wheelchairs and with breathing apparatus, and they've lost a lo...
TOM BROKAW I remember saying before the Gulf War that CNN was the little engine that thought it could, ... But ...
TOM BROKAW It doesn't mean that I am going to go sit in the anchorman's rest home in a rocking chair and take s...
TOM BROKAW Immediately after the explosion he turned to his producer and said 'Am I alive?' and 'Don't tell Lee...
TOM BROKAW It was always great to see them together. They had strong wives, great kids ... and great times toge...
TOM BROKAW Tom Broderick in so many ways embodies the best qualities of his generation. He was gravely wounded,...
TOM BROKAW As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in the...
TOM BROKAW A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try...
TOM BROKAW Tonight, there are even more warnings of possible terrorist attacks in America-
TOM BROKAW We were competitive, but we were always bound by a shared devotion to being reporters first.
TOM BROKAW I gave him a sleeping bag. I didn't know he'd have so much opportunity to use it.
TOM BROKAW [On May 18, 1990, the 10th anniversary of the eruption, I stood on the ridge named for David Johnsto...
TOM BROKAW He was also great personal company: charming, witty and mischievous. He was my hero as well as my fr...
TOM BROKAW This is so unfair and so outrageous and so maddening it's beyond my ability to express it in sociall...
TOM BROKAW This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.
TOM BROKAW We all made each other better at what we do. And we had a common DNA, if you will: We were all repor...
TOM BROKAW It makes it all the more poignant because of the absence of our colleague Peter Jennings. We had hop...
TOM BROKAW I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a ki...
TOM BROKAW When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.
TOM BROKAW One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across hig...
TOM BROKAW Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him ...
TOM BROKAW We had hoped that he would be here so that we could have a reunion tonight ? a celebration.
TOM BROKAW While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades, ... the evangelical movemen...
TOM BROKAW Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
TOM BROKAW Yesterday they had to operate and remove part of the skull cap to relieve some of the swelling.
TOM BROKAW Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
TOM BROKAW Peter was born to be an anchor,
TOM BROKAW I'm honored that you invited me, especially when for $10,000 and a new convertible you could have ha...
TOM BROKAW The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.
TOM BROKAW I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fi...
TOM BROKAW There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in Am...
TOM BROKAW When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect...
TOM BROKAW I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was sum...
TOM BROKAW In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to ...
TOM BROKAW While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement ...
TOM BROKAW The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is rea...
TOM BROKAW John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was...
TOM BROKAW My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the tru...
TOM BROKAW He's going to be continuing to do what he's been doing, which is campaigning up an down the state.
BRIAN BROKAW They're adults and they have the right to participate in the political process.
BRIAN BROKAW We've got a pretty aggressive commitment. We've planned to go up at this time for weeks.
BRIAN BROKAW His campaign is starting to sound like Al Checchi: Vote for him because he's the richest guy out the...
BRIAN BROKAW They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's ...
DAVID BROKAW Both destiny and free will exist simultaneously. You are destined to be given some opportunities but...
TOM TOM During times of hardship people find happiness in simplest pleasures
TOM TOM Am I good enough?
Trust.
TOM The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this ...
TOM REISS Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they ca...
TOM LANDRY There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro...
TOM HANKS Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
TOM CRUISE Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
TOM CRUISE Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomo...
TOM CRUISE When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. ...
TOM CRUISE I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.
TOM CRUISE I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybod...
TOM CRUISE When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that include...
TOM CRUISE Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right t...
TOM CRUISE I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and ta...
TOM CRUISE If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
TOM CRUISE What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,...
TOM CRUISE I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
TOM CRUISE As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I...
TOM CRUISE The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo...
TOM CRUISE The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur...
TOM CRUISE I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&...
TOM CRUISE I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o...
TOM CRUISE I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn'...
TOM CRUISE Do I make mistakes? Yeah.
TOM CRUISE I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a littl...
TOM CRUISE I go without sleep, I just go hard.
TOM CRUISE When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to...
TOM CRUISE Football is unconditional love.
TOM BRADY My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.
TOM WATSON The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
TOM HIDDLESTON Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, c...
TOM REISS Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
KIANA TOM Good things, when short, are twice as good.
TOM STOPPARD Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper...
TOM STOPPARD The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th...
TOM STOPPARD I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
TOM STOPPARD My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
TOM STOPPARD The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones...
TOM STOPPARD Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
TOM STOPPARD Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
TOM STOPPARD All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An...
TOM STOPPARD Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
TOM STOPPARD The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t...
TOM STOPPARD For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...
TOM STOPPARD Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
TOM STOPPARD Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
TOM CONTI I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart...
TOM CRUISE Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil...
TOM BRADY Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all...
TOM BRADY Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
TOM BRADY I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
TOM BRADY So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me...
TOM BRADY If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
TOM BRADY My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t...
TOM BRADY There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y...
TOM BRADY I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch...
TOM BRADY You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th...
TOM BRADY The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
TOM BRADY When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
TOM BRADY I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'...
TOM BRADY Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome...
TOM DELONGE I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
TOM BRADY What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and t...
TOM COTTON So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlis...
TOM LANTOS I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie ser...
TOM HOLLAND Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowi...
TOM CRUISE I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool...
TOM HIDDLESTON Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever...
TOM WAITS Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, eac...
TOM RIDGE America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness a...
TOM HARKIN My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...
TOM HANKS I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON