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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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" 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. "

" Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. "

" In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions. "

" '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. "

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" We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' "

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Measure Of A Man

" 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. "

" Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. "

" Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line. "

" Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. "

" 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. "

" Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them. "

" Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. "

" 'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences. "

" The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. "

" After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. "

" 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. "

" You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "