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" There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated. "
Matt Lauer
America
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" 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.' "
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" I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy? "
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" It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are. "
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" I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life. "
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" When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there. "
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" 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. "
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" Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media. "
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" I like it when things are where they're supposed to be. "
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" Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing. "
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" What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not. "
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" 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. "
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" Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America? "
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" People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act. "
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