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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.
— Graydon Carter
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Graydon Carter
journalist, editor, actor, writer
1949
Edward Graydon Carter, CM is a Canadian journalist who was the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986. In 2019, he co-launched a weekly newsletter with Alessandra Stanley called Air Mail, for "worldly cosmopolitans".
All Quotes by Graydon Carter
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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.
— Graydon Carter
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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.
— Graydon Carter