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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult. "

" There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. "

" 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. "

" I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you. "

" Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds. "

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

" I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts. "

" History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. "

" 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. "

" Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale. "

" Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. "

" My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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" I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. "