Graydon Carter Quotes - Page 2

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• Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.

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  Notebook, Memories, Taken

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

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  Father, Sometimes, Lifetime

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• Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

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  Men, Mind, Bars

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• Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

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  Honest, Financial, Institutions

  "Paper Chase" by Graydon Carter, www.vanityfair.com. July 2012.

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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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• In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

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  Country, Years, Office

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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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• History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

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  Epic, Opportunity, Tales

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• We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

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  Photography, Vanity, Care

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• It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

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  Bullying, Ignorance, Rocks

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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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• In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

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  Book, Joy, Age

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• After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

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  Country, Wall, Culture

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• I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

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  Editing, Research, Guts

  "Graydon Carter: Literati? Glitterati? I'd rather have a quiet night in with the missus". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

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  Book, People, Credit

  "The angry editor". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

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  Way, Hard Way, Hard

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• My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

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  Prayer, Ideas, Swings

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• Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

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  Writing, Paris, Giving

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

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• As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

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  Editors, Information, Lawyer

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• It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

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  Years, America, Age

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• Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

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  Men, Unattractive, Attributes

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• Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

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  Moving, Voice, Years

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