Graydon Carter Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Mean, Zurich

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  Zines, Leader, Leaving

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  Country, Years, Office

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  War, Decision, Vietnam

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  Party, Thinking, America

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

  Graydon Carter

  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.

  Graydon Carter

  Honest, Financial, Institutions

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

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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.

  Graydon Carter

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

  Graydon Carter

  Long, Water, Brain

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

  Graydon Carter

  Father, Sometimes, Lifetime

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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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• 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.

  Graydon Carter

  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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• 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.

  Graydon Carter

  Bullying, Ignorance, Rocks

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• We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

  Graydon Carter

  Photography, Vanity, Care

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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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• 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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• Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

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  Men, Unattractive, Attributes

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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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• People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

  Graydon Carter

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "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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• Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

  Graydon Carter

  Numbers, Issues, Hypocrisy

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• To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

  Graydon Carter

  Growing Up, Crazy, Kids

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• Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

  Graydon Carter

  Television, Benefits, Intimacy

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