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Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

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Willard Scott
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 7
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Weather Presenter
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Willard Herman Scott Jr.
Willard Herman Scott
Jr.
Willard Herman Scott
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Plain
Folks
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Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
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I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
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My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
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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.
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People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.
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My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.
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It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
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Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
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I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
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Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
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The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!
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A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
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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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I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.
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I think women can cope a lot better than men.
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No libraries, no progress.
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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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The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.
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