Al Roker Quotes
If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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When I was 27, I felt old. I didn't feel healthy. I just wasn't taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.
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Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.
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My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
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If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
