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I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
Willard Scott
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Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
Willard Scott
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
Willard Scott
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The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.
Willard Scott
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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!
Willard Scott
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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.
Willard Scott
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
Willard Scott
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As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
Willard Scott
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Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
Willard Scott
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When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
Willard Scott
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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
Willard Scott
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
Willard Scott
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Willard Scott
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Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
Willard Scott
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Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
Willard Scott
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Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
Willard Scott
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There is something endearing about the weatherman.
Willard Scott
18.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
Willard Scott
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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
Willard Scott
20.
I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
Willard Scott
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If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.
Willard Scott
22.
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
Willard Scott
23.
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.
Willard Scott
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No libraries, no progress.
Willard Scott
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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.
Willard Scott
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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.
Willard Scott
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Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
Willard Scott
28.
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
Willard Scott
29.
Having a phobia has changed me.
Willard Scott
30.
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
Willard Scott
31.
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
Willard Scott
32.
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.
Willard Scott
33.
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
Willard Scott
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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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I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
Willard Scott
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I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
Willard Scott
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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.
Willard Scott
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I talk too much. I eat too much.
Willard Scott
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I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
Willard Scott
40.
I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
Willard Scott
41.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
Willard Scott
42.
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
Willard Scott
43.
I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
Willard Scott
44.
I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
Willard Scott
45.
A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
Willard Scott
46.
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
Willard Scott
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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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I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
Willard Scott
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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.
Willard Scott
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The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
Willard Scott
