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" Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else. "
Graydon Carter
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" Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. "
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" 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. "
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" You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. "
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" 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. "
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" The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book. "
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" The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. "
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" In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder to prove, but the damages are enormous. "
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" Everything I love about America is fragile. "
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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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" Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. "
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" 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. "
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" As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. "
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" People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. "
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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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Country
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" I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City. "
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God
Life
" My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. "
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Future
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" 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. "
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" Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. "
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" Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. "
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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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" 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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Country
Strange
" Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. "
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" As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot. "
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" 'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences. "
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" 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. "
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Moment
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