Graydon Carter Quotes

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Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

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Ignorance, Office, Personality

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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

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Elephants, Self, Empathy

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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

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Dare, Wit, Troublemaker

"Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011: In Memoriam" by Graydon Carter, www.vanityfair.com. December 2011.

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It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

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Math, Simple, Years

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I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

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Regret, Men, Thinking

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As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

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Clothes

"These things I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.

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Party, Thinking, America

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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

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School, Men, Thinking

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My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

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Past, Culture, Moments

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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

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Three, Stories, Elements

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I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

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Sports, Men, Games

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Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'.

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Men, Thinking, Land

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

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Kids, Vanity, Editing

"Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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Life is all about seating and lighting.

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Life Is, Lighting

"Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

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Book, Thinking, Deception

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Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

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Fashion, Children, Later In Life

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There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

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Editors, Issues, Interesting

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I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

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New York, Cities, People

"Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

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Zines, Leader, Leaving

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Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

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Would Be, Deposits, Parlor

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.

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New York, Mean, Zurich

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Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

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Discovery, America, World

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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

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War, Decision, Vietnam

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Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

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Long, Water, Brain

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We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

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Photography, Vanity, Care

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