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I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
Matt Lauer
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Values
Dinner
National
Sense
Type
Television
Having
Open
Am
Friends
Person
Same
National Television
Different
Mean
Dislikes
When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.
Matt Lauer
You
Job
Unless
Out
Dream
Another
Got
Leave
Get
Really
Your
Your Dream
I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?
Matt Lauer
Love
You
Woman
Women
Past
Say
TV
See
Guy
She
Go
Were
Walked
Get
Did
Same
Roman
Nose
Your
They Say
Letters
Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
Matt Lauer
Conservatives
Liberals
More
Lot
Up
Than
America
List
Screwing
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
Matt Lauer
Mom
Anything
Dad
Raised
Jewish
Times are harder there right now. I think it's been well publicized. We are - the show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be. I want to make it better.
Matt Lauer
Better
Think
Ratings
Well
Make
Been
Times
Where
Want
Them
Show
Now
Harder
Right
In this business, the minute you start feeling comfortable about the show you're doing or the ratings you're getting, you're in big trouble.
Matt Lauer
You
Business
Trouble
Feeling
Big
Minute
About
Ratings
Comfortable
Doing
Getting
Show
Start
I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.
Matt Lauer
Me
You
Complain
Paper
Say
Kid
See
No Reason
Putter
Days
Like
Because
Hear
Friends
Hit
Golfers
Reason
Who
Even
Ever
Butt
What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.
Matt Lauer
Business
Yourself
People
Simple
Be Yourself
Makes
Sounds
Camera
Successful
People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.
Matt Lauer
Time
Family
Morning
Me
People
Financial
School
Wake Up
Problems
Job
Kids
Pressures
Bad
One Time
See
Someone
Having
Forced
Am
Off
Wake
Up
Get
Same
Maybe
Want
Them
Act
Showing
Thing
Last
Meredith Vieira warms my heart.
Matt Lauer
Heart
Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
Matt Lauer
Kind
Soulmate
Katie
I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.
Matt Lauer
Funny
Kids
Very
Lucky
There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.
Matt Lauer
Mom
About
Unspoken
Generosity
Always
Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.
Matt Lauer
Truth
Me
People
Regret
Enough
Embarrassed
Some
About
Shame
Shared
Feel
Make
Untrue
Said
Cherish
Dearly
Being
Stories
Ashamed
Now
By The People
I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life.
Matt Lauer
Life
Me
Balance
People
Perspective
Too Much
Job
My Life
Too
Gave
Back
Spent
Favor
Focusing
Brought
Most
Balanced
Equation
Becoming
Much
Who
Dad
Early
Career
I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.
Matt Lauer
Today
Strange
Topic
About
Something
Glad
Host
Know
Years
Little
Show
Pains
Sudden
Royal
There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.
Matt Lauer
Parents
Liberal
Kids
Pockets
Affluent
America
Where
Want
I like getting rid of things. I really do.
Matt Lauer
Like
Getting
Really
Rid
Things
I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.
Matt Lauer
Like
Supposed
Where
Things
I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
Matt Lauer
Rumors
Out
Cottage
Know
Industry
Read
Meanness
I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.
Matt Lauer
Life
My Life
Mornings
Known
Want
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
Me
School
Job
Feeling
Nothing
Live
President
Interview
States
Kids
Eye
Eye Contact
Great Job
Give
Give Me
Onstage
Delivering
Contact
Feel
Oval
Oval Office
Tenth
School Play
Like
Making
Lines
Office
Done
Going
Moment
Connection
Compares
United
Good Feeling
United States
Play
I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.
Matt Lauer
Face
Interview
Out
Find
Someone
Getting
Screaming
Anything
I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
Matt Lauer
People
Politicians
Think
More
Tends
Celebrities
Than
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Who
Fascinating
Even
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
Maureen Reagan
Women
Money
Problems
Seriously
Trouble
Taken
Candidates
Being
Unique
Media
Two
Raising
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