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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
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits. Graydon Carter
Business Words Rest Suitable Appropriate Out Would Would-Be About More Only Pursuits Taking Betting Venerable Institutions Call Go Banks Lending Customer Them Themselves Should Old-Fashioned
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? Graydon Carter
Better Job Face Goodness Our Everything Would About Take Abuse Well Make Knows Pill Personal Just Substances Personal Lives Us Who Professional Why Lives Why Not Among
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale. Graydon Carter
Age Facebook Digital Twitter Digital Age Scale Tend Instagram Also Pinterest Grand
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time. Graydon Carter
Time Food You Game Long Lunch Lasts Tourists Footloose Adventurous Most Impossibility Lot Get Wallet Flight Whole Thick Palate Need
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. Graydon Carter
You Thought Those Eating Adulthood Looked Always Were Child Wanted Aspects Forward
In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both. Graydon Carter
War Fight Country Pay Top Percent Both Economic Devastation Leaving Led America Fortunate Less
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. Graydon Carter
Sometimes Father Spent Musicals Lifetime Feel Five Disney Watching
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. Graydon Carter
You Rage Out Constantly Prone Seems Throwing Call Tantrums Fits Acting Electorate Full
The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor. Graydon Carter
Best Rest Live Stars Luxurious Insecure More Fact Bubble Hairdresser Instructor Friends Trainer Movie Which Movie Stars Us Many Publicist
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. Graydon Carter
Bullying Ignorance World Muslim Muslim World Administration Caused Surprise Hold Regard Swagger Bush Much
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 Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist. Graydon Carter
World Church Rest Increasingly Our Further Neighbors Out More Could Step Fairly Becomes Said Becoming South Governments Left-Wing Elect Engaged Less Europe Even Socialist Right Fundamentalist
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule. Graydon Carter
Faster Rule Hussein Invasion Could Saddam Since Safely Occupation Said Clip Iraqis Than Decade Did Dying Last Last Decade
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. Graydon Carter
Result Long-Term Well Brain Psychological Trauma Lungs Damage
Everything I love about America is fragile. Graydon Carter
Love Everything About America Fragile
Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. Graydon Carter
You Every Back Kids Minute Invest Over Times Get Four
Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else. Graydon Carter
Hatred Else Obama More Than Anything Anything Else Race
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
Best Prayer Big Resources Everywhere Say Give Idea Devote Read Fences Quiet Get Big Story Story Again Public Them Newspapers Your Reason Appeal Swing Here Widespread Suggestion
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent. Graydon Carter
Music You Noise Incumbent Kids Give Parent Something Like Call Against Rebel
To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. Graydon Carter
Dreams You Book First Carefully Release Rightly Jobs Must Promoters London Martin Cottage Steve Steve Jobs Industry His Up Itself Discuss Orchestrated Literary Anything Which Product Apple
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