Anderson Cooper Quotes

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Anderson Cooper

Profession : Journalist

Birth : June 3, 1967

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

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I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

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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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I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

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I realized I didn't want there to be anything left unsaid with my mom. I didn't want there to be questions that I still had about who she was and what her life was like. And I didn't want her to have questions about me as an adult.

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Who's, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives?

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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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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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When you lose a parent at ten years old, the world seems like a much scarier place. It makes complete sense to me that I took survival courses when I was a teenager and started going to war zones as a reporter. I didn't ever want to be taken advantage of, and I wanted to be able to take care of those around me.

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There's a number of places I've wanted to go but it's been determined too risky or that I'm relatively well-known, and therefore it might not be wise for me to pop up in this place.

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I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

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I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

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To realize that your mother's love life has been far more interesting than one's own is a weird thing to discover.

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I don't want to do anything that puts my team members, my camera people or producers, in danger, so it's an ongoing dialogue on all the stories that we do.

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There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and for three years, that was the only kind of story I was interested in doing.

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I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

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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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No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

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I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.

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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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