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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. "
Willard Scott
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" 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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" I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul. "
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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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" You go from Pampers to Depends! "
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" I've always had a reputation as a buffoon. "
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" I love commercials. "
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" I do a lot of schmoozing. "
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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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" Never slap a man who chews tobacco. "
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" Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. "
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" I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.' "
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Night
" I talk too much. I eat too much. "
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Too Much
Much
" 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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" 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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Thanksgiving
Dream
" 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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Dinner
People
Mother
" It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares? "
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Cares
Big
" I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses. "
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Wear
Dresses
Time
" 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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People
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" Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older. "
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You
Older
Nature
" 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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" I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents. "
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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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" I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air. "
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Today
Me
History
" I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2. "
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Once
Always
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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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" I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived. "
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Lived
Guy
" I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am. "
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" Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other. "
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" The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV? "
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" Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. "
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