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" Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond. "

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" In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble. "

" I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids. "

" There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom. "

" People have the right to say whatever they want. "

" I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life. "

" There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated. "

" I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there. "

" I like it when things are where they're supposed to be. "

" My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. "

" People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act. "

" I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met. "

" I was always more interested in asking people about themselves than I was telling them about me. "

" I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians. "

" Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate. "

" I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling. "

" Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing. "

" I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time. "

" What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not. "

" Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself. "

" I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain. "

" I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy? "

" I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments. "

" I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do. "

" If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful. "

" Every night at 6:30, my entire family sits down for dinner together. It's definitely the best part of my day. "

" There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond. "

" When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility. "

" If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection. "

" Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. "

" It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are. "