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" It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares? "
Willard Scott
Story
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Big
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" In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat. "
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" Having a phobia has changed me. "
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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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" When something's over with me, it's over. "
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Something
" 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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" The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV? "
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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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" I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul. "
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Heart And Soul
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" As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. "
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Always
Child
" 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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" There is something endearing about the weatherman. "
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Endearing
" Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. "
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Everyone
Nobody
" I'm a country boy. "
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Country Boy
Country
" When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day. "
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Day
Every
" I've always had a reputation as a buffoon. "
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Had
Always
" Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents. "
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Best
Car
You
" 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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Best
Change
Come And Go
" Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love. "
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You
Will
" I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.' "
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Live
Saturday Night
Night
" I think women can cope a lot better than men. "
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I Think
Better
Women
" I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2. "
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Once
Always
Get
" I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses. "
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Wear
Dresses
Time
" 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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Camera
Children
Training
" Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right. "
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Than
Uncle
" I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost. "
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Lost
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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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Days
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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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" 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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" 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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Wood
She
Electricity