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" I was a landscaper for three years and loved it. "
Willie Geist
Loved
Three
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Chris
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" People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing. "
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People
Story
" If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early. "
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Sunday
Leader
Tiger
" I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up. "
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Up
Growing Up
" It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity. "
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You
Matters
Matter
" I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere? "
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Vacation
Hate
Moment
" I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice. "
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Home
Voice
Say
" The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen. "
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Bed
Great
New York
" Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same. "
Willie Geist
Comedy
Same
Just
" I'm not a coffee drinker, so my drink is kind of like a girlie skim chai latte. I'm not proud of it, but it's really good. "
Willie Geist
Drink
Good
Coffee
" An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team. "
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Day
Me
Smart
" High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game. "
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New York
Football
New
" My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door. "
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Dressed
Routine
Door
" My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. "
Willie Geist
Book
I Am
History
" I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants. "
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Sunday
Time
Me
" I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden. "
Willie Geist
Always
Policy
Done
" Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it. "
Willie Geist
Playing
Watching
Only
" In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. "
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Tradition
Dressed
Golf
" If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest. "
Willie Geist
Plan
Life
Maintenance
" When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with. "
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Different
Deal
You
" I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open. "
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Eat
Dark
Bed
" The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes. "
Willie Geist
News
Sometimes
Serious
" You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself. "
Willie Geist
Say
Queen
King
" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "
Willie Geist
Work
Long
Job
" The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent. "
Willie Geist
Welcome
Tent
Me
" In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while. "
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Like
Deepest
Live
" Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home. "
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Privacy
Want
Whatever
" There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living. "
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Living
Said
Games
" It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference. "
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Fun
Think
Writing
" I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work - people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don't agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind. "
Willie Geist
People
World
Work