"To a young kid growing up in Canada,……" — Graydon Carter
"To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it."
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Graydon Carter
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77 Quotes by Graydon Carter
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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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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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