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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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Anderson Cooper
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: June 3
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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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The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
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I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.
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Do you get the anger that is out here?
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Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?
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I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
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The map of the world is always changing sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.
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Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.
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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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I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.
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