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Anderson Cooper Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“It’s not the first thing, but there’s not a day that goes by that you don’t think about it. That’s the thing about suicide.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Suicide
“Anything is possible. But with suicide we like to think it’s this clear thing, one way or the other. And it’s not. That’s the horrible thing about suicide. The family members are left for their entire lives wondering why.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Suicide, Family
“From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would have been so motivated.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: pot of gold, motivation
“For me—this is gonna sound really clichéd and hokey—but I do believe that there’s something important about bearing witness, and that there’s nothing worse than somebody dying in silence.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: cliche, hokey, bearing witness
“I do think in cable news that the networks that have strong opinions—whether you’re a conservative network like Fox or a liberal network like MSNBC—when there’s not a huge news story going on, they’re entertaining, and those are what people tune in to.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Cable News, CNN, Opinions, Fox, MSNBC
“My dad was from Mississippi. We are from a really poor family. He died when I was ten. There’s a saying that my mom actually used to say to me when I was a kid, which is, 'A fatherless child thinks all things are possible and nothing is safe.'”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Mississippi, fatherless
“injects a language and vocabulary into your life that’s suddenly there. And that’s why [members of the same family] commit suicide. If your parent commits suicide, there’s a much greater chance that you will commit suicide later in life.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Suicide, Family
“That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful person in the world... We see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over, but he just hasn’t accepted it and he wants to take everybody down with him, including this country.”
— Anderson Cooper, CNN’s Anderson Cooper compares Trump to ‘obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun’
Tagged: Trump, Anderson Cooper
“It wasn’t even so much that I wanted to be a reporter. I’d always been interested in wars and insurgencies, particularly obscure countries and insurgencies. But I was also, at that point, really interested in survival. Why some people survive and other people don’t. Why two people growing up in a family, why one of them—why I survived and why my brother didn’t.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Reporter, Wars, insurgencies, Survival
“No, it wasn’t a death wish. But, look, I was in a lot of pain. And I wanted to be around other people who were in pain as well. In America, people don’t talk about grief. They don’t talk about loss very much. It makes people very uncomfortable. And I wanted to be around other people who— where life and death was very much a real issue. And where it was something that people were dealing with every single day. Because I felt like I was dealing with this every single day.”
— Anderson Cooper, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Pain, Death Wish, Grief
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