Graydon Carter Quotes - Page 3

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• My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

  Graydon Carter

  Prayer, Ideas, Swings

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• 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 civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

  Graydon Carter

  Moving, Voice, Years

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• Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

  Graydon Carter

  Men, Unattractive, Attributes

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• 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 it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

  Graydon Carter

  Editors, Information, Lawyer

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• To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

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  Growing Up, Crazy, Kids

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• Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

  Graydon Carter

  Kids, Four, Minutes

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

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• Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

  Graydon Carter

  Television, Benefits, Intimacy

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• Everything I love about America is fragile.

  Graydon Carter

  America, Fragile

  "How King of New York took battle to the Great Polariser" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2003.

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• Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

  Graydon Carter

  Numbers, Issues, Hypocrisy

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Graydon Carter: Literati? Glitterati? I'd rather have a quiet night in with the missus". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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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.

  Graydon Carter

  Believe, Fall, Names

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• You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

  Graydon Carter

  Mother, School, Light

  "Get Carter". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2002.

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• Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Fun, Cities

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• There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

  Graydon Carter

  Past, Missing, Wish

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• You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

  Graydon Carter

  Jobs, Back Again, Manufacturing

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• Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

  Graydon Carter

  Age

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