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I love commercials.
No libraries, no progress.
Having a phobia has changed me.
You go from Pampers to Depends!
I talk too much. I eat too much.
Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
When something's over with me, it's over.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
I think women can cope a lot better than men.
I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
There is something endearing about the weatherman.
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.
When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.
I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
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.
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.