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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. "
Graydon Carter
New
World
Looking
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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 in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving. "
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World
Tell
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" Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. "
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Television
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" We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' "
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" Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser.' "
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" 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. "
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" Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun. "
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" Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time. "
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Decisions
War
Vietnam War
" 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. "
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More
Rest
" The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate. "
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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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Always
Editing
Gut
" 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
" I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. "
Graydon Carter
Sports
Man
Measure Of A Man
" Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. "
Graydon Carter
Anything
Liberals
Hatred
" 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
Light
Mother
School
" Everything I love about America is fragile. "
Graydon Carter
Fragile
Everything
Love
" '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. "
Graydon Carter
Sensibility
Modern
Should
" It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. "
Graydon Carter
Age
Years
Stage
" I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea. "
Graydon Carter
You
No Idea
Honest
" 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! "
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Bad
Country
Strange
" 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
Said
Rule
Decade
" Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. "
Graydon Carter
Me
Mine
Made
" After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. "
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Money
1920s
Country
" 'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences. "
Graydon Carter
Traditions
Deep
Context
" You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. "
Graydon Carter
Lose
Manufacturing
You
" I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture. "
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America
Culture
Good
" 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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You
Way
Us
" 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. "
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Ego
Me
Mind
" Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse. "
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Minds
Own
Man
" 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. "
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" As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot. "
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Hide
Good
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