Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb

"“We'd like you to go and sing with Celine Dion at a rehearsal." My confidence was not that high yet... So, I said to him, "I don't think this is the right thing for me, so good luck, and thank you so much for calling, David." Thankfully, he called me back, and he said, ”I don't think you heard me. Get your butt over here!""
- ‎Josh Groban on being 17 and overwhelmed by an offer from David Foster

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"Feeling my ribs, trying to breathe like kind of whining and groaning in the corner of the boat... 'Did I just break my neck? Can I stand up? What's the decision that I need to do right now?' And the boat just kept sailing." -Cole Brauer after rough seas nearly knocked her out
Cole’s memoir “First Light: Sailing Solo But Not Alone” is available now.
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"I told my second grade teacher this is what I wanted to do... And I got laughed at, and people were like snickering, because everybody wanted to be a policeman, a firefighter, a doctor... And I said I wanted to be a stand-up comedian." -Sebastian Maniscalco
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"It was like the Pope was coming... And then she walks in. She's so normal, you know, to be a huge megastar that the whole world knows her name. I mean, Taylor Swift, for God's sake." -Kelli Giddish on Taylor's cameo in an SVU video at the Emmys
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"I was swimming in the pool at the Sunset Marquis Hotel. I was 22 years old... I jumped out of the pool and introduced myself. And when I met her, I'd never seen a more beautiful human being." – Harry Connick Jr. on meeting his wife, Jill
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"My Best Friend's Wedding was such a great thing to get because that was when romantic comedy was queen of Hollywood, and there I was with Queen herself, Julia Roberts… and being a Georgia girl, I think she was kind of rooting for me." -Carrie Preston
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"Once he saw me, he was like, "she's my next Madonna." He just was such a champion for you and also your biggest critic... And he taught me what a hit song is." -Taylor Dayne on Clive Davis
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“I love that there’s no place my kids can be in the apartment I can’t hear ’em. I love knowing where they are. I love hearing their feet. I just love it so much.” —Seth Meyers
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“In frats, everyone is having sex, but no one is in love. But on the competitive Bollywood dance team, everyone’s in love, but no one’s having sex." —Hasan Minhaj
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"I worked for my dad for 10 years at his Firestone automotive place, and Chip was a customer. He saw me on my dad's commercials. He came in, asked for a brake job. He didn't need a brake job. And I was like, 'who is this guy?' -Joanna Gaines on her meet-cute with husband Chip
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Hoda takes Joy 101 to the U.S. Open with tennis legends Mary Carillo and Pam Shriver.
"The hardest thing in the world is doing something you've never done before, but... it's fun to say yes to things." -Mary Carillo
"Chrissy beat me 18 straight times out of the gate before I got her. And then Martina, while I got her early, she beat me 33 straight times at the end of our career. But tennis brings you together." -Pam Shriver
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"I'm pretty sure that my mother helped me write that song... And it was so quick that you just instantly think, this is not a good song. But then later when you look at it in hindsight, it's like maybe the easy ones to write are the best ones." —Pat Monahan on writing the Train hit, “Drops of Jupiter”
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"I had OCD. I carried rubber surgical gloves with me all the time because if I was out in public, I didn't want to touch anything… And I just took the rubber glove, and I don't know why, and then I just pulled it over my head." —Howie Mandel on the origin of his classic comedic bit
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“He had so much energy and constantly wanted to make us laugh, and it was like he had a gravitational pull. And then when he passed, it was like, wait, how does the world keep spinning without this person?” -Jason Ritter on the passing of his father, actor John Ritter

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“I do think there are these moments in your life where, while honoring your commitments, you have to honor your commitment to yourself.”-Ariana DeBose
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"Most of the time, the biggest cause of miscommunication is that what was said was not the thing that was heard." -Jefferson Fisher
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“We toured with our kids… Haley learned how to walk in Minneapolis, Hana was roller skating in the Forum, they were riding their bikes inside Madison Square Garden.”- Pat Benatar

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“You cannot just fall in love one time to the woman who is your partner. She changes with birth, with life, with age, with loss, with everything that goes on. You have to rediscover her every time.”-Henry Winkler
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“Two of our cast mates now have left us. And, all the things you experience… they all make you who you are. They show you, like, if I survive that, I can survive anything.”-Jennie Garth, recorded in front of a live audience with Hoda Kotb in Cannes, France.
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“You should be rattling the age cage. What decision would you make if you were twice as bold and twice as confident? Because it's like that version of yourself is just waiting to be let out of a cage.”
-Robin Arzon
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