Graydon Carter Quotes

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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… All
• Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. Attribute
• Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life. Absolutely
• My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. American
• Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. Addictive
• The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. Actor
• Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. Boarding
• You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. Ever Get
• 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… America
• 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,… Aging
• 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… Any
• 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… Across
• 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… Administration
• I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which… Always Thought
• 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.… Big
• I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather… All
• 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… Account
• 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… American
• 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… Across
• 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… Administration

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