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I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

- Willie Geist

Best, Back, United, Formality

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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My Life, Need, Still, Dunk

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.

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Wish, Places, Like, Duke

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

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Birthday, Think, I Think, Cuts

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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Hope, Doing, Dad, Wink

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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Thought, I Think, German, Superman

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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Leader, Masters, Gates, None

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

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Think, Sure, Anybody, Branded

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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Feet, Bed, Dave, Columnist

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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Mom, Church, Sunday Morning, Specifically

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

- Willie Geist

Blue, Grown-Up, Feels, Blazer

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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Shades, Pants, Half, Blazer

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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More, Accountable, TV, Platforms

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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Shrimp, About, Bush, Vacation

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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Play, Wearing, Spectators, Dugout

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.

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Queen, King, Comedy, Writes

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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Fearless, Admire, Genuinely, Writes

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.

- Willie Geist

Bed, Out, Chunk, Twist

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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College, Political, Joe, Conventions

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, Will, Pat, Joking

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

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Pretty, Going, Sure, Letters

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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Proud, Kind, Like, Drinker

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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Show, Your, Choosing, Sitting

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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Work, Deal, TV, Different Things

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

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Computer, Address, Even, Email

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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Think, Like, TV, Extra

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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Doing, Like, Makes, Jeopardy

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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Door, Shower, Quick, Button

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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Good, Show, Putting, Pillow

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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Simple, American, Income, Puppies

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