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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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" What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged. "

" Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. "

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

" 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. "

" As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. "

" People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. "

" 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. "

" To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. "

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

" To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Measure Of A Man

" There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place. "