Matt Lauer Quotes

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Matt Lauer

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : December 30, 1957

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.

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I like getting rid of things. I really do.

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I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

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If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

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I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

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I value my privacy a lot.

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When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

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I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

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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.

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I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

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I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.

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I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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