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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
Folks
Hands
Take
Microphone
Microphones
Plain

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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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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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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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Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
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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've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
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I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.
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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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It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?
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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 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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Having a phobia has changed me.
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August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
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I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
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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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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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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
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I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
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I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.
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When something's over with me, it's over.
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