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" It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity. "
Willie Geist
You
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Matter
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" 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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" The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent. "
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" When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do. "
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" I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I have found the puppies to be a reliable source of income with a consistent rate of return. "
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" 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. "
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Good
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" Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come. "
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" 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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" The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes. "
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Sometimes
Serious
" 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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Me
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" 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
" Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not. "
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You
" 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. "
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Long
Job
" I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address. "
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Even
Got
Television
" Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same. "
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Same
Just
" I've had two pedicures in my life, and they were glorious. "
Willie Geist
Two
My Life
Life
" My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink. "
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Doing
Him
Hope
" I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all. "
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Men
Life
Path
" My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump. "
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Trump
Always
Dad
" 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. "
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Book
I Am
History
" 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. "
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People
World
Work
" 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
" In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while. "
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Like
Deepest
Live
" There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living. "
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Said
Games
" 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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Deal
You
" Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions. "
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Morning
" 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
" 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
" Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. "
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Age
Think
Cake
" 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
" I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim. "
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