"A workday lunch that lasts as long as……" — Graydon Carter
"A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time."
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77 Quotes by Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter has 77 quotes on this site.
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Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a…
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived…
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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…
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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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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is…
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of…
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We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We…
— Guy Laliberte
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that…
— Unknown Author
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
— Louis Kronenberger
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