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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
Graydon Carter
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Graydon Carter
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 14
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City of Toronto
Edward Graydon Carter
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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.
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My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.
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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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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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Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading it's betting.
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The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
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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.
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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.
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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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It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.
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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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Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
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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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