Anderson Cooper Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.”
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“I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.”
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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.”
-- Anderson CooperSource : "Anderson Cooper: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay'" by Andrew Sullivan, dish.andrewsullivan.com. July 2, 2012.
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“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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“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
-- Anderson CooperSource : Anderson Cooper (2009). “Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival”, p.5, Harper Collins
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“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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“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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“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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“Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.”
-- Anderson CooperSource : Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.”
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“Do you get the anger that is out here?”
-- Anderson CooperSource : "Reporters Give Voice to Post-Katrina Desperation" by David Folkenflik, www.npr.org. September 2, 2005.
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“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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“I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.”
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“New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.”
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“If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.”
-- Anderson CooperSource : "Anderson Cooper Talks Coming Out As Gay, Brother’s Suicide And GLAAD Awards With Madonna". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.
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“I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”
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“Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.”
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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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“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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“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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