Willard Scott Quotes
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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.
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Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
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The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
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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!
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
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Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
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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.
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These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
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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.
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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.
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I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
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I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.
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Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
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I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
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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.
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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
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I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
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There is something endearing about the weatherman.
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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.