72 Quotes by Willie Geist

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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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    Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.

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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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    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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    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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    Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.

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    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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