Top 87 Anderson Cooper Quotes
#1. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
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#2. I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.
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#3. The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten
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#4. The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.
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#5. Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.
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#6. If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
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#7. I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.
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#8. Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
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#9. I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.
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#11. I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
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#12. You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. Take
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#13. Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
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#14. I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It's on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
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#15. The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
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#16. The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.
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#17. Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".
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#19. Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
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#20. That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
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#21. Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
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#22. One of the things that Jon Kabat-Zinnn talks about is that everyone wants to figure out how to live longer. But this actually is a very easy way for you to live longer, maybe you're not extending your life, but you are present and living more of the moments of your life.
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#23. I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.
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#25. A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
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#26. When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.
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#27. I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.
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#28. I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.
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#29. Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
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#30. You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness ... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
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#31. Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
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#32. I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
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#33. He was forceful, domineering, and supremely sure of himself. When you have low self-esteem, as I did, those qualities are attractive.
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#34. I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
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#35. If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.
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#36. Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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#37. Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.
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#38. I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly,
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#39. Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.
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#40. The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.
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#41. The farther you go ... the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.
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#42. I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.
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#43. Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.
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#44. I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.
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#45. Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
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#46. I love you in ways that are infinite and as in eternity have no beginning or end.
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#47. I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
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#48. Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,
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#49. In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.
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#50. I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.
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#51. The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
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#52. The world has many edges, and all of us dangle from them by a very delicate thread. The key is not to let go.
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#53. I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
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#54. The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
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#55. If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.
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#56. As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
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#57. I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.
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#58. Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.
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#59. If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
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#60. I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
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#61. Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.
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#62. Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
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#63. I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
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#64. Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
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#65. I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
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#66. Does one ever know what another person is really like, even someone very close to us? Do we know what we are like ourselves? What we are today may not be what we are tomorrow.
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#67. Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
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#68. The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
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#69. I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.
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#70. When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.
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#71. If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.
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#73. The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
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#74. I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.
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#75. Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
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#76. No one seemed to understand. I'd go to movies, see friends, but after a couple days I'd catch myself reading plane schedules, looking for something, someplace to go: a bomb in Afghanistan, a flood in Haiti. I'd become a predator, endlessly gliding in saltwater seas, searching for the scent of blood.
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#77. Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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#79. You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.
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#80. I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.
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#81. I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
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#82. I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
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#83. I'd wanted emotion but couldn't find it here, so I settled for motion.
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#84. I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.
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#85. New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
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#86. I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.
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#87. I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.
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