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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. "

Willard Scott

Wood

She

Electricity

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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. "

" 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. "

" I get all fired up about aging in America. "

" I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am. "

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" I'm a country boy. "

" It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. "

" The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV? "

" Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks. "

" I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields. "

" 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. "

" You go from Pampers to Depends! "

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You

Depends

" Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right. "

" I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.' "

" I do a lot of schmoozing. "

Willard Scott

Lot

" 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. "

" Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke. "

" Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. "

" 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. "

" I've always had a reputation as a buffoon. "

" As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love. "

" When something's over with me, it's over. "

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Over

Something

" I love commercials. "