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…
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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.
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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…
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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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Life is all about seating and lighting.
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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…
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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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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
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As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
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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…
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Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
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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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Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.
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History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
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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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I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.
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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…
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In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.
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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…
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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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