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The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
— Tom Brokaw
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Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.
— Tom Brokaw
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You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.
— Tom Brokaw
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The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.
— 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 in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.
— Tom Brokaw
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The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.
— Tom Brokaw
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