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 and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

  Graydon Carter

  Ignorance, Office, Personality

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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 them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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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 say it - God.

  Graydon Carter

  Dare, Wit, Troublemaker

  "Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011: In Memoriam" by Graydon Carter, www.vanityfair.com. December 2011.

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• Life is all about seating and lighting.

  Graydon Carter

  Life Is, Lighting

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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• As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

  Graydon Carter

  Clothes

  "These things I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

  Graydon Carter

  Past, Culture, Moments

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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 definition of the word 'loser'.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Thinking, Land

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

  Graydon Carter

  Sports, Men, Games

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• 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 that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

  Graydon Carter

  Math, Simple, Years

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• There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

  Graydon Carter

  Editors, Issues, Interesting

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• I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

  Graydon Carter

  Regret, Men, Thinking

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• I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

  Graydon Carter

  Trying, Looks, Stuff

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• Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

  Graydon Carter

  Hatred, Distaste

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• Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

  Graydon Carter

  Three, Stories, Elements

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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 like to remember.

  Graydon Carter

  Memories, Thinking, Lenses

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• 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 was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

  Graydon Carter

  Book, Thinking, Deception

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• The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

  Graydon Carter

  Kids, Vanity, Editing

  "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

  Graydon Carter

  Photography, Vanity, Care

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  School, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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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