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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.

Graydon Carter

Kids, Vanity, Editing

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

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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.

Graydon Carter

Fashion, Children, Later In Life

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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

Graydon Carter

Memories, Thinking, Lenses

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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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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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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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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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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.

Graydon Carter

New York, Cities, People

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

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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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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 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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The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

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Actors, Milk, Actresses

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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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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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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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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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I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Graydon Carter

Party, Years, Oscars

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

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We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

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Photography, Vanity, Care

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It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

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Dying, Hussein, Occupation

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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

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Men, Unattractive, Attributes

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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.

Graydon Carter

Prayer, Ideas, Swings

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Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

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Believe, Fall, Names

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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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Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

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Television, Benefits, Intimacy

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Everything I love about America is fragile.

Graydon Carter

America, Fragile

"How King of New York took battle to the Great Polariser" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2003.

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