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" 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
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" As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover. "
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" I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform. "
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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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" I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again. "
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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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" To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. "
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" As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. "
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" Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse. "
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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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" I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. "
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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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" Everything I love about America is fragile. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. "
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Own
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint. "
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" 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. "
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" As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. "
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