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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.”
“I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.”
“The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.”
“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.”
“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!”
“Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.”
“Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.”
“I think women can cope a lot better than men.”
“The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?”
“I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.”
“As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.”
“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.”
“These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.”
“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.”
“It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.”
“I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.”
“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.”
“Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.”
“I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.”
“I talk too much. I eat too much.”