I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of teamwork and the bonds formed with colleagues, emphasizing that they are like family.
Tom Brokaw's quote underscores the value of teamwork and the collective effort of a dedicated group of professionals. He acknowledges that while he may be the public figure representing a larger team, it is the shared commitment and personal sacrifices of those working behind the scenes that truly matter, drawing a parallel to familial relationships.
In practice
During a company meeting to highlight the importance of collaboration, this quote could inspire team spirit.
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
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
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