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I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

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Willard Scott
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 7
Actor
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Willard Herman Scott Jr.
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As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
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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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Never slap a man who chews tobacco.
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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.
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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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I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
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Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.
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Having a phobia has changed me.
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Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
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Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
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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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In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
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When something's over with me, it's over.
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When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.
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