"I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him."
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"It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever."
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"You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square."
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"It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle."
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"New Orleans is a glorious mutation"
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"I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water."
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"It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience."
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"Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife."
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"I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got."
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"[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true."
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"I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life."
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"If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat."
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"I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing."
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"I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent."
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"I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched."
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"I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy."
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"In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing."
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