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" It's rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you've never seen before, good or bad. "
Matt Lauer
Bad
Celebrity
You
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" Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better. "
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Bad
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" 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. "
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Life
Morning
" I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that. "
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" In some ways, being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants. "
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Some
Pants
Kick
" 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. "
Matt Lauer
Great
Good
School
" Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring. "
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Than
Caring
" I'm lucky: I have very funny kids. "
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Kids
Funny
Very
" If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works. "
Matt Lauer
Old
Clothing
Balance
" When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business. "
Matt Lauer
Hurt
Speak
Family
" My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift. "
Matt Lauer
Woman
Strength
Mother
" When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there. "
Matt Lauer
Your
Dream
Got
" I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling. "
Matt Lauer
Admire
Ease
Who
" This is the best job in television. I grew up watching the 'Today show.' "
Matt Lauer
Job
Watching
Television
" 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. "
Matt Lauer
High School
Time
Work
" I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room. "
Matt Lauer
Walking
People
Finding
" 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. "
Matt Lauer
Chocolate
Remember
Same
" I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace. "
Matt Lauer
Grace
Patience
Love
" You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging. "
Matt Lauer
Today
Living
Think
" Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing. "
Matt Lauer
Golf
Family
Father
" My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience? "
Matt Lauer
Think
Experience
Fishing
" People have the right to say whatever they want. "
Matt Lauer
People
Whatever
Right
" I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful. "
Matt Lauer
Wonderful
Everything
Saying
" What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not. "
Matt Lauer
Be Yourself
Simple
Yourself
" If you have a bad experience on the air, you don't think you've done your job, or you have an embarrassing moment. I guarantee you'll work harder the next time not to let it happen again. "
Matt Lauer
You
Experience
Job
" The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. "
Matt Lauer
Draft
Deadline
Meet
" Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly. "
Matt Lauer
Enough
Regret
Feel
" When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost. "
Matt Lauer
Position
Down
You
" I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father? "
Matt Lauer
Good
Father
Worry
" On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.' "
Matt Lauer
Daughter
Drawing
I Love You
" There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated. "
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America
Pockets
Want