Quotes by Graydon Carter

About Graydon Carter:

Edward Graydon Carter is a Canadian-born American journalist and has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986.
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As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

Graydon Carter

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

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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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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 ...

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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.

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I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

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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.

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I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in ...

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Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

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Life is all about seating and lighting.

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The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

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Everything I love about America is fragile.

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I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

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I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

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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.

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It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.

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Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

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Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well?

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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 regard.

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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.

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'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

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Author Bio

  • NameGraydon Carter
  • DescriptionCanadian-born American journalist
  • BornJuly 14, 1949
  • ProfessionJournalist