Quotes by Matt Lauer - Page 2

Times are harder there right now. I think it's been well publicized. We are - the show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be. I want to make it better.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Harder
Ratings
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I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Sense Of Humor
Dislikes
National Television
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I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Every Night
Fascinated
Fodder
Tabloids
Life Morning Night
Morning Show
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I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Glad
Host
Royal
Pains
Sudden
Topic
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If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Balance
Closets
Clutter
Something New
Avoid
Works
Buy
Crammed
Piece
Shirt
Suit
Tie
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Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Funny
Brain
Chocolate
Marijuana
Reactions
Remember
Researchers
Two
Discovered
Produces
Similarities
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When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Articles
People
Responsibility
Writing
Finger
Longest
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Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Common Sense
Terrific
Great Myself Me
Great Myself Always
Absolutely Not
Embarrass
Roomful
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Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Ashamed
Cherish
Embarrassed
Regret
Untrue
Truth Me People
By The People
Dearly
Shared
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There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Chemistry
Intangible
Superficial
Good Your May
Bond
Good May Your
Finger
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Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Running
Country
Inspiration
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My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Experience
Dad
Boat
Fishing
Sitting
Taught
Trout
Stand
Fish
Fly
Hand
Rod
Stream
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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.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Balanced
Life Dad Me
Equation
Favor
Focusing
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I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Golfers
No Reason
Paper
Hit
Butt
Complain
Putter
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Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Complaining
Newspapers
Terrible
Unfair
Woe
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People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Morning Me Night
Nap
Weird Thing
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In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Experimentation
Frantic
Frustration
Handy
Attempt
Period
Phone
Extraordinarily
Five-Minute
Followed
Phone Call
Professional
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My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Strength
Children
Given
Might
Mother
Strong
Tested
Unpredictability
Come
Life Mother Always
Being
Greatest
Also
Woman
Easily
Gift
Even
Greatest Gift
Her
Rather
She
Strong Woman
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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.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
One Time
Family Time Morning
Forced
Showing
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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.'
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Daughter
Accomplish
Baseball
Day To Day
Hearing
Little Things
Looks
Love You
Seeing
Son
Little
Actually
Hit
Draw
Milestones
Says
She
Trivial
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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.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Eighteen
Frustrating
Host
Challenging
Today World Living
Fantasy World
Twenty
Unbelievably
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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.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Contact
Delivering
Eye Contact
Give Me
Good Feeling
Great Job
Oval
Good Great Moment
Compares
Interview
Onstage
Oval Office
School Play
Tenth
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Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer. I never had an idea that I would do anything in front of the camera, and that kind of happened by accident. But I wanted to be a producer or give me a job with the Yankees or play for the Knicks. I was a sports nut when I was a kid.
Matt Lauer / Journalist
Give Me
Yankees
Accident
First Of All
Producer
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