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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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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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'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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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 was born in New York in 1904.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?
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If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
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I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
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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.
