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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Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

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

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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

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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.

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'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

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

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Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

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Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.

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Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.

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Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need.

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It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Chu...

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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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We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

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I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

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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.

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What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.

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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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I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

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Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

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I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

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Author Bio

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