Willard Scott Quotes
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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You've got to be realistic.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
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I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody she dates has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... and if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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But the policies of the 1960s would not be successful today. No more would general import controls.They benefit some home industries at the expense of the livelihood of everyone working in exports. We would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
