Willard Scott Quotes
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.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I like to look strong and commanding.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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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.
