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" I think women can cope a lot better than men. "
Willard Scott
I Think
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Women
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" My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. "
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" Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not. "
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" I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there. "
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" My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother. "
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" The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV? "
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" My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68. "
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" Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible. "
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" These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act. "
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" I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me. "
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" When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true. "
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" I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses. "
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" Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. "
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" August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. "
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" As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. "
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" I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something. "
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" The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever! "
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" Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. "
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" When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day. "
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" People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal. "
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" Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right. "
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" Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times. "
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