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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. "
Willard Scott
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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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" These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act. "
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" I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am. "
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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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" It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. "
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" As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. "
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" I get all fired up about aging in America. "
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" There is something endearing about the weatherman. "
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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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" I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist. "
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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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" 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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" When something's over with me, it's over. "
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" Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. "
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