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In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.
- Matt Lauer
#Fix
#Frustration
#I Am
#Mind
#Phone Call
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
- Matt Lauer
#About
#Business
#More
#Pessimist
#Than
Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.
- Matt Lauer
#Early
#Either
#Fired
#Five
#Where
People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.
- Matt Lauer
#Me
#Morning
#Night
#Tough
#Weird
I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.
- Matt Lauer
#School
#Sports
#Television
#Time
#Work
Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
- Matt Lauer
#Life
#Me
#Money
#My Life
#Patience
If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
- Matt Lauer
#Bad
#Good Times
#Good
#Lion
#Person
If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.
- Matt Lauer
#Good
#Great
#Live
#Me
#Moment
Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer. I never had an idea that I would do anything in front of the camera, and that kind of happened by accident. But I wanted to be a producer or give me a job with the Yankees or play for the Knicks. I was a sports nut when I was a kid.
- Matt Lauer
#Job
#Me
#Never
#Sports
#Television
It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
- Matt Lauer
#Funny
#Learn
#People
#Two People
#Two
I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
- Matt Lauer
#Along
#Compliments
#Criticism
#Take
I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.
- Matt Lauer
#Because
#Hindsight
#Interview
#Things
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.
- Matt Lauer
#Brain
#Remember
#Same
#Similarities
#Two
There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.
- Matt Lauer
#Bond
#Chemistry
#Difference
#Good
#Meet
My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?
- Matt Lauer
#Dad
#Experience
#Fish
#Fishing
#Fly
#I Am
#Me
Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond.
- Matt Lauer
#Bond
#Did
#Like
#Through
#Together
On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'
- Matt Lauer
#Daughter
#Drawing
#Love
#Milestones
#Son
There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.
- Matt Lauer
#I Am
#Pain
#People
#Regret
#Words
I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
- Matt Lauer
#Bed
#Life
#Morning
#My Life
#Night
#Show
I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.
- Matt Lauer
#Attitude
#Go
#Life
#Personal
#Your
My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
- Matt Lauer
#Children
#Gift
#Life
#Mother
#Strength
#Woman
I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.
- Matt Lauer
#Blessed
#Grace
#I Am
#Love
#Patience
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