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title: "3 Decade Quotes By Tom Brokaw"
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> [My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/my-own-strong-feeling-was-that-the-gay-liberation-movement-really-got/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3b/tom-brokaw-2402_attraction_my-own-strong-feeling-was-that-the-gay-l_281577.png)

> [I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/i-had-gone-to-all-the-big-stories-of-the-80s-which-was-one-of-the/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

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> [The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/the-disquieting-news-of-danny-villanueva-s-death-brought-back/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

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## Other authors on Decade

## More by Tom Brokaw

> [What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/what-i-think-is-that-fox-has-done-a-very-smart-job-of-carving-out/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/it-s-so-much-easier-to-do-it-right-than-to-do-it-wrong/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/in-the-spring-of-1984-i-went-to-the-northwest-of-france-to-normandy/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/postwar-america-he-learned-the-insurance-business-by-day-and-braille/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/1920-was-an-auspicious-year-for-a-young-person-to-enter-the-world-as/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/the-doctor-didn-t-want-me-to-play-golf-anymore-and-was-worried-about/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/you-will-not-get-a-google-alert-when-you-fall-in-love/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/we-were-empty-nesters-our-last-born-child-having-departed-for-duke/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/the-cancer-is-in-remission-and-i-will-shortly-go-on-a-drug/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/david-brinkley-was-an-icon-of-modern-broadcast-journalism-a-brilliant/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/the-warmth-of-other-suns-is-a-sweeping-and-yet-deeply-personal-tale/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [We don't play the celebrity business in our family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/we-don-t-play-the-celebrity-business-in-our-family/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/the-real-test-of-an-anchor-is-when-there-s-a-very-big-event-sept-11/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/while-attendance-at-traditional-churches-has-been-declining-for/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

> [There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-brokaw/there-are-lots-of-dimensions-to-being-a-cancer-patient-the/)

[Tom Brokaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-brokaw/)

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