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" As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot. "
Graydon Carter
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" As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent. "
Graydon Carter
Someone
Now
New York
" 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
Ignorance
Personality
Best
" 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
Direction
Know
" Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with. "
Graydon Carter
Television
Degree
Creativity
" 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
Empathy
Intelligence
Treat
" Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. "
Graydon Carter
Unattractive
Attribute
Man
" History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. "
Graydon Carter
Missed
History
Opportunities
" 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
Grand
Facebook
" I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person. "
Graydon Carter
Dinner
Jacket
Party
" There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting. "
Graydon Carter
Really
Interesting
Movie
" 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
Us
Better
Why
" 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
Sight
Sit
" 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. "
Graydon Carter
Memory
Lens
Way
" 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
Eating
Child
You
" Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon. "
Graydon Carter
Aging
Women
Think
" 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
Money
1920s
Country
" 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
America
Country
Fight
" 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
Moment
Race
Assumptions
" Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life. "
Graydon Carter
You
Way
Us
" 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. "
Graydon Carter
Simple
Nothing
Every Day
" Everything I love about America is fragile. "
Graydon Carter
Fragile
Everything
Love
" 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
Think
Age
" 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
Culture
Wish
Past
" 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
World
Tell
Moving
" War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale! "
Graydon Carter
Bad
Country
Strange
" 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. "
Graydon Carter
Random
Hats
You
" My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. "
Graydon Carter
Past
Future
Culture
" 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
Church
Rest
Said
" 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
Customer
More
Rest
" I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you. "
Graydon Carter
Surprise
Movies
Think