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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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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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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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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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
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Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.
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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.
