“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.” Quote by Willie Geist
“I treat Twitter like a news feed. I follow you guys, I follow every news organization - left, right, center, and everything in between - and it's like a ticker on my phone. For me it's that you have to wade through the people who wish you were dead - and I have to respect their opinions - but it helps me stay on top of the news.” PeopleHelpingGuyLeftWishOpinionNewsOrganizationTreatsPhonesHelp MeWish YouWade Author:Willie Geist
“New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.” PeopleRealValuesNew YorkIndustryDiversityShouldersHillsWrong ThingsGritHousewifeBeverly HillsReal Housewives Author:Willie Geist
“I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.” BelieveMorningTelevisionDrinkCoffee Author:Willie Geist
“Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.” MountainBreakfastDeliciousSalty Author:Willie Geist
“I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensDoneBitsPresidentPolicyLittle BitKillingIraqPresident ObamaForeign PolicyBin LadenOsama Bin LadenUnderestimated Author:Willie Geist
“Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.” FactsWalksPolicyTablesDiscussionOfficersIntelligence Officers Author:Michael Morell
“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.” KindDreamCultureTalkingRolesHappenedIntegrityConversationLibraryBest ThingsAcademicDreams Come TrueScholarshipPopular CultureJournalisticReligion In Society Author:Reza Aslan
“When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science.” NeedsJesusTalkingTvsAll TimeBrownIranRocketsRocket Science Author:Reza Aslan
“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.” PeopleWayHumansEndsStatesDoneReligiousUnitedRolesUnited StatesStreetsDignityThirdsDefeatPeacefulIdeologyProtestIranAlsDictatorshipSyriaEgyptReligious FaithAl QaedaHuman DignityLibyaPeaceful ProtestTunisia Author:Reza Aslan
“The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.” WantSeemsIssuesNewsProgramWesternNuclearIranCooperationSanctionsBad NewsRegional Cooperation Author:Reza Aslan