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Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter
American Journalist
Born: Jul 14, 1949
About Best Life People Think You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
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
Best Ignorance Arrogance Personality Leader Cocktail Incompetence State Pretty Fact Head Traits Situations In Fact Lethal
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. Graydon Carter
History Opportunities Nothing Missed Tale Epic
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
Intelligence Treat Behavior Consider Way Worst Admire Finest Part Self-Awareness Puts Empathy Because Demonstrate Very Traits Human Human Behavior Social Them Display Elephants
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. Graydon Carter
Daily Values Rare Rat Reflect Assumptions Tribulations Rat Race Casually Take Accept Gospel Break Race Moment
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
Good You Light School Mother Sick Signature Could Light Bulb Know Well Bulb Forge Being Note Warm Really Used Thermometer Ever Hardly
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most. Graydon Carter
You Destination Money Sky Become Year Rich Live Spent Has-Been City Percent Given Vast Lifeless Arguably Weeks Over New Most Couple Also Occupied Foreign Been York Quintessential New York Apartments Preferred Now Here
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 a bank. Graydon Carter
Life Job Wind Big Jobs Some Point Knew Know Because Boy Dug Up Stock Bunch Department Did Taste Department Store Bank Blue-Collar Just Store Wanted While Worked White-Collar Graves
Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse. Graydon Carter
Man Own Every Back Minds Would Like Bar Every Man
The last thing businessmen want to do is sit in a room filled with other businessmen. A room full of money is a pretty boring sight - unless it's yours, of course. Graydon Carter
Money Sit Other Unless Sight Boring Pretty Course Want Room Full Yours Businessmen Filled Thing Last
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. Graydon Carter
Culture Money Country Collapse About Ultimately Survived Wall Wall Street Stopped Being After Street
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
Me You Editing Ego Mind Kids Vanity Vanity Fair Having Fair Learn Greater Because Greatest Greatest Thing Subjugate Just Interest Your Prepared Thing Four
Life is all about seating and lighting. Graydon Carter
Life About Lighting
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. Graydon Carter
Success Become Own Some Magazines Point Hostage
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. Graydon Carter
Life Like Shelf Shelf Life Short Movie Movie Actor Actor Actress Milk
You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. Graydon Carter
You Lose Back Jobs Rarely Get Again Them Manufacturing Manufacturing Jobs Ever
We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' Graydon Carter
Photography Care Vanity Vanity Fair About Fair Really
I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. Graydon Carter
Editing Research Gut About Always Any
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. Graydon Carter
You Age People Nice Think Around Ambitious Decent Decent People Want Certain Certain Age
There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting. Graydon Carter
Like Lot Just Movie Movie Actors Interesting Them Really Actor
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
Time Together Single Society Month Thread Fabrics Similarities Given Vast Tailor Put Supply Between Looks Make Does Editor Issue Being Interesting Aspects Whole Each Disposal Buttons
There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place. Graydon Carter
Welcome Otherwise Ancient City London Pretty About Civility Still Very Vessel Modern Place Which Little Much Certain English International Now
Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life. Graydon Carter
Life You Few Way Absolutely Count Most Learned Very Few Things Us Hard Hard Way Things
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. Graydon Carter
Today Memory Country Before Some Superpower Like Became Still Up American Grew Fleeting Who
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
God Gift Christopher Say Those Dare Troublemaker He Knew Wit Well Him Who
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
You Money Somewhere Too Way London About Rather Direction Heading New Along Geneva Know Became Always York New York Mean Certainly
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. Graydon Carter
Financial Betting Like Institutions Call Trading Honest
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