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Willard Scott [1934-0] American

Rank: 101
Entertainer, Author

Willard Herman Scott, Jr. is an American weather presenter, author, television personality, clown, comedian, radio personality and occasional actor, best known for his TV work on the Today show and as the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.

Thanksgiving, Age, Car, Family, Positive

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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.	Family, Positive	101
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.	Thanksgiving	102
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.		103
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.	Car	104
Never slap a man who chews tobacco.		105
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.		106
It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?		107
Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.		108
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.		109
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.	Thanksgiving	110
There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.		111
Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.		112
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.		113
I think women can cope a lot better than men.		114
I get all fired up about aging in America.	Age	115
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.		116
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.		117
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!		118
I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.		119
I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'		120
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.		121
I do a lot of schmoozing.		122
My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.		123
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.		124
I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.		125
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.		126
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.		201
When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.		202
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?		203
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.		204
I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.		205
You go from Pampers to Depends!		206
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.		207
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.		208
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.		209
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.		210
I love commercials.		211
Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.		212
There is something endearing about the weatherman.		213
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.		214
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.		215
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.		216
I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.		217
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.		218
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.		219
I talk too much. I eat too much.		220
I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.		221
When something's over with me, it's over.		222
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.		223
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.		224
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.		225
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.		226
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.		301
I'm a country boy.		302
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.		303
I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.		304
I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.		305
Having a phobia has changed me.		306

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