Willie Geist Quotes
I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.
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I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
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I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.
