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Al Roker Quotes

Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director, and at the end of my sophomore year, my department chairman put me up for a job doing weekend weather in Syracuse, New York.

Al Roker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 20, 1954

Topics

Truth Job New York Me Weather End

It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

Jill Soloway

Music Sad Easy You Write Just

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

Jesse Williams

Integrity Person Storytelling Being

I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.

Matt Holliday

Sports School Talent Me Blessed

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Jean Genet

Elegance Harmony Bad Achieve Height

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.

Michael Eric Dyson

Time Creative Spiritual Black Genius

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

Tommy Lee

Music People Impact Long Will Call

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Michael Keaton

God Think Questions You Play She

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger Angry Mankind Sinners Large

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

Loretta Young

Performance Television New Agency

No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.

Janine di Giovanni

Credit Cards Exist Because Zero

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Constantin Stanislavski

Talent Attention Nothing Mental

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

Arundhati Roy

Anger People Political You Know Way